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Recent Examples of maimed
Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2026
Recently, when Gonzalez maimed three fingers in a firework accident and spent weeks in the hospital, his neighbors house-sat and guarded his belongings.
—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
During a panel, women shared stories of being shot and maimed for protesting the Iranian government.
—Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 26 Mar. 2026
Indeed, the ayatollahs have maimed and killed thousands of Americans.
—Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 17 Mar. 2026
An additional 20,000 men on both sides were maimed, crippled or otherwise wounded.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
Most Iranians know someone who has been persecuted, killed, maimed, or unjustly imprisoned by the Islamic Republic regime that has occupied Iran since 1979.
—Dan Bilefsky, HollywoodReporter, 21 Jan. 2026
Philadelphia police are warning dog owners in Center City after a pit bull believed to belong to a homeless man was linked to multiple attacks on pets over the past week, leaving two dogs seriously injured and another permanently maimed.
—Ross Dimattei, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
For decades, law enforcement officials have issued public pleas to revelers not to fire guns into the air on Independence Day and New Year’s Eve, an annual phenomenon in some neighborhoods that has occasionally led to people being maimed or killed.
—James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2026
Adjective
That may sound unfathomable to any non-comic reader who watched Steven Yeun's Mark Grayson get bludgeoned, maimed, and nearly disemboweled (sorry, Atom Eve) in an episode-long, cities-spanning fight with Thragg's berzerker warrior, Conquest (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).
—Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
Israel is in shambles with probably large casualties, dead and maimed.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2026
Recently, when Gonzalez maimed three fingers in a firework accident and spent weeks in the hospital, his neighbors house-sat and guarded his belongings.
—Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
During a panel, women shared stories of being shot and maimed for protesting the Iranian government.
—Sarah Bahari, Dallas Morning News, 26 Mar. 2026
Indeed, the ayatollahs have maimed and killed thousands of Americans.
—Beatrice Peterson, ABC News, 17 Mar. 2026
An additional 20,000 men on both sides were maimed, crippled or otherwise wounded.
—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
Most Iranians know someone who has been persecuted, killed, maimed, or unjustly imprisoned by the Islamic Republic regime that has occupied Iran since 1979.
—Dan Bilefsky, HollywoodReporter, 21 Jan. 2026
Philadelphia police are warning dog owners in Center City after a pit bull believed to belong to a homeless man was linked to multiple attacks on pets over the past week, leaving two dogs seriously injured and another permanently maimed.
—Ross Dimattei, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
For decades, law enforcement officials have issued public pleas to revelers not to fire guns into the air on Independence Day and New Year’s Eve, an annual phenomenon in some neighborhoods that has occasionally led to people being maimed or killed.
—James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maimed
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The case back then also involved the bodies of naked, mutilated women, plus all the sexism and homophobia that were pervasive in police work in 1998 and are apparently ship-shape today.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The prisoner releases come as Cuba experiences at least a partial reprieve from the energy crisis that has crippled the island.—
Joe Walsh,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Iranian missile attacks this month crippled a key industrial center in Qatar, which produces about one-third of the world’s helium.—
Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
31 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Shaw said the East Bay Paratransit program, which is responsible for assisting disabled residents within three-quarters of a mile from transit routes, receives 69% of its operational budget from AC Transit and 31% from BART.—
Chase Hunter,
Mercury News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Medicaid is the joint state and federal program that covers low-income and disabled adults.—
Katheryn Houghton,
NPR,
7 Apr. 2026
Verb
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That succession is triggered when the chief of staff is incapacitated or removed from their position.—
Steve Beynon,
ABC News,
2 Apr. 2026
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One was incapacitated and recovering from surgery at a Carmichael surgery center in April 2011.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
23 Mar. 2026
Verb
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The crisis ended hours later with three hostages and three hostage takers dead and an additional 14 people wounded.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
4 Apr. 2026
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In October, a Border Patrol agent shot and wounded Marimar Martinez in Chicago, and in January, a Border Patrol agent fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis just weeks after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot Renée Good in the same city.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Hegseth cited some of those events in his video, including a shooting that injured five soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia last year.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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Jude, a 12-year-old who gets injured in a firework accident, had been drinking with older kids while dealing with instability at home.—
Jonathan Hunt-Glassman,
Fortune,
2 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Multiple street signs were also damaged during the celebration.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Storms and heavy rainfall that have caused landslides, flooding and lightning strikes across the country over the past two weeks have left more than 130 people dead and destroyed or damaged thousands of homes, authorities have said.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
7 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Two dead sharks were found stranded on North Carolina beaches during Spring Break, and researchers aren’t sure what killed them.—
Mark Price,
Charlotte Observer,
7 Apr. 2026
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The quarter-ton bears, apex predators who are revered by some Native American tribes but also feared for their attacks on livestock and sometimes humans, became locally extinct in California in 1924, the same year that the last California gray wolf was captured and killed.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacbee.com,
7 Apr. 2026
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“Maimed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maimed. Accessed 10 Apr. 2026.
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