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Ingo Arndt captured the red wood ants efficiently dismembering a blue ground beetle to carry into their nest.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2024

During the war, a number of proposals for dismembering the empire had been considered.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

There are standard bearers such as experimental composer Pauline Oliveros and performance artist Raphael Montañez Ortiz, known for dismembering pianos with an axe.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2022

As Mr. Ipalensenda reached a fallen African rosewood tree that he was in the process of dismembering, he called out to his co-workers who were tending a nearby kiln.

From New York Times • Jul. 13, 2022

Franny seemed intensely interested in the way Lane was dismembering his frogs’ legs.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger