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Chan School of Public Health and other groups have savaged the findings and the journal that published it.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2019

Novelist and essayist Zoë Heller sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss Trump’s peculiar Americanness, lame defenses of Hillary Clinton, working on Fleet Street, and becoming friends with writers whose books you have savaged.

From Slate • Jul. 20, 2017

And while admirers have fawned over his longevity—President Bill Clinton warmly said presidents come and go but Dingell goes on forever—critics have savaged his style.

From BusinessWeek • Feb. 24, 2014

But while his criminal trials and his self-imposed afflictions have savaged his appearance, they appear not to have diminished his sense of purpose.

From Time • Feb. 10, 2012

People came running to the cries of the terrified thief, whom Lisette was unwilling to abandon until my servant and I persuaded her, for in her rage she would have savaged anyone else.

From The Memoirs of General Baron De Marbot by Colt, Oliver C.