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“This is now the third attempt to deface this sacred memorial and turn it into a vanity project for one man’s ego,” Beatty’s attorneys Norm Eisen and Nathaniel Zelinsky said in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

"The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool," Burgum posted on X. "We won't back down to deranged people who want to destroy, deface, or degrade our monuments."

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

He even intends to deface the entire White House complex with a 90,000-square-foot ballroom, Versailles as reimagined by Tony Soprano.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025

If we build it, they will deface it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

“Well, no one said not to deface the mountain.”

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Like the art it defaces, protest must evolve to stay relevant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024

“I consider it very serious, unworthy and a sign of great incivility when a tourist defaces one of the most famous places in the world,” he said on Twitter.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2023

She then strips and defaces a portrait of her husband.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2018

The twist: Huckins defaces these replicas with cyber-slang text and smartphone icons, painted as neatly as the portraits themselves.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2017

He defaces, with a pen, the passages, in some precious volume, which do not meet his idea of moral propriety.

From The Library by Andrew Lang

But on Monday, photos showed it had been damaged, external after vandals scratched it, leaving her name badly defaced.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

But on Monday, vandals scratched the star, which was dedicated in 1984, leaving Parton's name badly defaced, with video on social media showing the damage.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

No one entertains the idea that one person’s graffitied tribute to a male gladiator might have been defaced by giving the picture breasts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

A recent viral video of defaced artwork on a public wall in the central Indian city of Gwalior has led to outrage on social media and among activists.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

The men marched on past the defaced gates of the Lytes’ country seat, never turning to look at them or Doctor Warren’s chaise with Cilia and Johnny under the hood.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

Who knew that defacing images of Satan was a popular cultural practice at the time?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

There has also been a spike in Cybertruck vandalism across the US, and some car owners are defacing their own Teslas in protest of Musk.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2025

Other climate protesters around the world have taken to defacing works of art hanging in museums, but a spokesman for the New York group said that it had not engaged in that particular protest tactic.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

Asked about his evolution, Maupal said he never considered himself a “rebel artist,” or the type of graffiti artist who remains anonymous because his artwork is, legally speaking, defacing a public space.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

It was defacing, it was taking away someone’s face.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood