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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Many of the prisoners were brutalized by soldiers.
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Young men are often brutalized by their experiences in jail.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After 75 days of being brutalized and sexually assaulted by other inmates and ignored by the prison guards, Rodney hanged himself.
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He had been brutalized in prison and become cynical.
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Literacy can be gained by brutalizing the imagination.
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Not one of the nurses apologized or indicated in any way that they had been brutalizing the patient.
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Racial violence began again when law enforcement officers brutalized peaceful civil rights protestors.
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Slavery brutalized its victims, but it also corrupted its masters.
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The rumor quickly spread among the black soldiers that other blacks were being brutalized by the police.
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There is something about coal mining that seems to brutalize a place.