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Recent Examples of disembowel
The man’s fears are realized when the monkey suddenly begins banging his drum, with a Rube Goldberg-style series of events causing the proprietor to get graphically disemboweled.
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Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
On Thursday, federal worker groups sued the administration, accusing Trump of violating the Constitution by systematically disemboweling the agency without congressional approval.
—Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2025
Sergio Leone’s gangster opus spanned 229 minutes in its original European cut — the director initially wanted to release it in two three-hour parts — then got reduced to 139 minutes by its American distributors with the predictable effects of arbitrarily disemboweling 90 minutes of a film.
—Kevin Lincoln, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
Then Morita failed to disembowel himself before he, too, was decapitated.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
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Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
On Thursday, federal worker groups sued the administration, accusing Trump of violating the Constitution by systematically disemboweling the agency without congressional approval.
—Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 9 Feb. 2025
Sergio Leone’s gangster opus spanned 229 minutes in its original European cut — the director initially wanted to release it in two three-hour parts — then got reduced to 139 minutes by its American distributors with the predictable effects of arbitrarily disemboweling 90 minutes of a film.
—Kevin Lincoln, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
Then Morita failed to disembowel himself before he, too, was decapitated.
—Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disembowel
Verb
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With power comes great responsibility—to clean, that is.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
9 Apr. 2025
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When customers send in their preloved pieces via mail, Faherty will clean, repair and relist the items on Faherty’s Second Wave site.—
Kanika Talwar,
Footwear News,
9 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Following the act of protest, the referee of the University of Maryland match -- which was not an NCAA tournament -- issued a black card to Turner, removing her from the competition.—
Leah Sarnoff,
ABC News,
4 Apr. 2025
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Respect the complexity enough to remove it from your communication.—
TK Keanini,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Vought has returned to his post as the budget office’s director, and his plans for eviscerating entire agencies and decimating the morale of federal workers have turned into reality.—
Stephen Engelberg,
ProPublica,
20 Mar. 2025
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No one else would have had the chutzpah, or the clout, to so eviscerate a powerful, theocratic Black family and, in so doing, to chart the price that political parents invariably extract from their kids, children who did not sign up for any kind of campaign to whom no benefits accrue.—
Chris Jones,
New York Daily News,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Disembowel.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disembowel. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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