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Hence the New Yorker version of “Try to Praise the Mutilated World” that contains both “drops of wine” and “dew.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2023

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 or intact, they could do no more on account of age, and their absence meant nothing.

From Social Life in the Insect World by Miall, Bernard