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
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
One neighbor trained his dog to deface Patterson’s property.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
In another video, Sweeney defaces an American Eagle billboard that reads “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans,” crossing out the word “jeans” and replacing it with “genes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025
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
While through long years his burdening cross he bore," and concludes with this fine eulogy: "A brave, bright memory! his the stainless shield No shame defaces and no envy mars!
From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by E. E. Brown
The artwork is largely undisturbed however its plinth has been defaced with a spray-painted tag.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 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
In total, East Lothian Council said 30 of the 40 meters installed had been defaced, with the bill for repairs currently running to £38,000.
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 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
“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
An Australian teenager has faced court for allegedly defacing a large blue sculpture of a mythical creature by sticking googly eyes on it.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2025
The property crimes follow the much-publicized defacing of downtown high-rises with graffiti.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024
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
“I see you have been defacing more good parchment, Yollo.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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