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Recent Examples of disembowel
These orcas have been seen disemboweling sharks and extracting their livers, a high-energy organ, with surgical precision.
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Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
If disembowelling a federal agency does somehow lead to higher reading and math scores, the federal workers who would have tracked this progress won’t be around to tell us about it.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
Analyzing the legendary unicorn tapestries hanging at the Met Cloisters in New York (augmented here by a gory new panel that depicts the suddenly fearsome animals disemboweling and impaling their aggressors), Ridley concludes that unicorns aren’t nearly as benevolent as most people think.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 Mar. 2025
You might be left out in the open air to live on in the form of the vultures that disembowel you, or, like the Tollund Man, you could be submitted to a peat bog upon your death so that your bones dissolve in the acidic environment while your skin remains perfectly preserved.
—Cutter Wood, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
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Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025
If disembowelling a federal agency does somehow lead to higher reading and math scores, the federal workers who would have tracked this progress won’t be around to tell us about it.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2025
Analyzing the legendary unicorn tapestries hanging at the Met Cloisters in New York (augmented here by a gory new panel that depicts the suddenly fearsome animals disemboweling and impaling their aggressors), Ridley concludes that unicorns aren’t nearly as benevolent as most people think.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 Mar. 2025
You might be left out in the open air to live on in the form of the vultures that disembowel you, or, like the Tollund Man, you could be submitted to a peat bog upon your death so that your bones dissolve in the acidic environment while your skin remains perfectly preserved.
—Cutter Wood, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disembowel
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Deen said housekeepers are often required to clean a room every 15 minutes, which leads to injuries and less-clean rooms.—
Sean Campbell,
Sacbee.com,
31 May 2025
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Add Aquatic Plants Aquatic plants not only look serene, but help clean the water and provide shade for fish.—
Miranda Crowell,
Better Homes & Gardens,
29 May 2025
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So everybody that's in the United States, and in this case in Puerto Rico, without an immigration status, needs to be removed or deported.—
Adrian Florido,
NPR,
2 June 2025
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission sent a licensed trapper to remove the injured alligator, officials said.—
Mark Price,
Miami Herald,
2 June 2025
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Some government functions were eviscerated, such as the U.S. Agency for International Development, which had provided a lifeline for impoverished people around the world.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
31 May 2025
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Scores of existing orders would be unenforceable, such as the national injunction prohibiting Trump from eviscerating the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of birthright citizenship and a temporary restraining order that Harvard just won to protect some 6,800 foreign students.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
27 May 2025
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“Disembowel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disembowel. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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