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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

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

One survey published in November of last year suggested public support of climate protests may dip after demonstrations such as pretending to deface art.

From National Geographic ● Jul. 19, 2023

“Anyway, everyone only goes to these parties to deface the fake scoreboard and get stories about crazy stuff. Celia’s parties make better stories than Celia does.”

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

“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

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

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

But it serves not to know such a person, who perpetually defaces the high by such strange mingling with the low.

From Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I by Fuller, Margaret

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

In her post, the teenager said she passed the murals daily and seeing the black silhouettes defaced with white markings filled her "with anger and disgust".

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

He told the BBC those responsible for defacing the machines would have "action taken against them".

From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2026

But Navarro couldn’t save Julie, and Leah assumes that Danvers is not on her side, even when her stepmother gets her out of trouble for defacing the mining office.

From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 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