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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

She’s an aesthete run amok, determined to deface anything that doesn’t live up to her impossible standards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 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

“Don’t you know it is against the law to deface a passport?”

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

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

It quite defaces that primitive glory, and destroys that native liberty, in which he was created.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

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

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

The video of the defaced artwork sparked anger on social media, with many saying that the sight made them "uneasy" and that "women are not safe even in graffiti".

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

But his tombstone was defaced on Thursday morning, local authorities said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025

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

Later that year, in October, an Extinction Rebellion activist was ordered to pay more than £1,500 for defacing the statue by painting "racist" on its plinth during a climate protest.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

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