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“Voices rise at certain times and soar,” she added, pointing to works that emerged in response to 9/11, such as Adam Zagajewski’s “Try to Praise the Mutilated World” and Vijay Seshadri’s “The Disappearances.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2020

In 2015, he joined a group of disabled Honduran asylum seekers who called themselves the Caravan of the Mutilated, and together they reached Texas.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 19, 2018

Mutilated notes – brought in or posted – are sent off to the Bank’s Leeds office for security checks.

From The Guardian • Nov. 10, 2015

Mother Agnes's work normally revolves around the Catholic monastery of St James the Mutilated, which lies north of the Syrian capital.

From BBC • Oct. 1, 2013

Mutilated telegraph-poles and broken straggly wires, evil-smelling pools of water, scattered bricks, torn roadways, and walls blackened and scarred by bomb and shell, completed a scene of mournfulness and desolation.

From Pushed and the Return Push by Nichols, George Herbert Fosdike