deface
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Despite the dismissal, Burgum vowed that the administration “won’t back down to deranged people who want to destroy, deface, or degrade our monuments.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 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
If we build it, they will deface it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
Donya says people in Tehran continue to deface government billboards and to write "#Mahsa" and "Woman, Life, Freedom" - the rallying cry of the protests - on walls, mostly on the subway.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2023
“Don’t you know it is against the law to deface a passport?”
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Their fight with the Sharks comes into focus when the gang defaces a wall mural of the flag of Puerto Rico.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2021
She then strips and defaces a portrait of her husband.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2018
“It’s also going to be the last time that anybody defaces the chapel on our campus,” he said.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2017
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
This blot defaces almost all the modern things called dramas or plays.
From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)
Equipped with super glue and expanding foam, the mystery vigilante has defaced dozens of newly installed parking meters across North Berwick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
But his tombstone was defaced on Thursday morning, local authorities said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
“Someone came into our house and defaced it,” Freddie said, staring at me.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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
“There’s laws against defacing and damaging gravesites and anyone that is caught in any act ... will obviously be met with the consequences of being arrested,” a police source said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
It was defacing, it was taking away someone’s face.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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