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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
brutalize .
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Examples
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Interesting how the allegedly anti-State folks -- among whom we must number several Speech Warriors ™ -- go all soft and gooey when the State brutalizes those with whom they happen to disagree, and happily applaud the murder of journalists who tell them what they don't want to hear.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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Interesting how the allegedly anti-State folks -- among whom we must number several Speech Warriors ™ -- go all soft and gooey when the State brutalizes those with whom they happen to disagree, and happily applaud the murder of journalists who tell them what they don't want to hear.
The mask slips again 2009
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My position with my husband was simple: given a choice between a man who brutalizes and murders, and a robot, I would opt for the robot in a heartbeat.
Claudia Ricci: Mating With a Machine? Maybe It's Not a Cop Out Claudia Ricci 2011
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A switch-hitter, Martinez especially brutalizes left-handed pitchers, hitting .396/.429/.732 this year.
If not Adam Dunn, then who? Adam Kilgore 2010
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Latif winds up as Uday's shadow, forced to watch as Latif brutalizes, tortures, rapes and even murders those unfortunate enough to cross his path.
Marshall Fine: Live from Sundance 2011: Day 4 Marshall Fine 2011
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My position with my husband was simple: given a choice between a man who brutalizes and murders, and a robot, I would opt for the robot in a heartbeat.
Claudia Ricci: Mating With a Machine? Maybe It's Not a Cop Out Claudia Ricci 2011
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It is true, of course, that war brutalizes cultures and people.
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We don't focus enough attention on human rights violations across the globe - specifically the wholesale oppression of girls and women - and I wish Saddam's fate on every other human being who brutalizes and slaughters innocent people.
Peter Daou: Pull, Pull, Pull to the Left: On Rove's Revisionism and Obama's "Failing" Presidency 2010
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His government denies voters their rights, brutalizes the opposition, censors the press, abuses women, inducts children into the army, and criminalizes homosexuality.
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We don't focus enough attention on human rights violations across the globe - specifically the wholesale oppression of girls and women - and I wish Saddam's fate on every other human being who brutalizes and slaughters innocent people.
Peter Daou: Pull, Pull, Pull to the Left: On Rove's Revisionism and Obama's "Failing" Presidency 2010
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