sacrilege
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His meticulously assembled forest of skulls, femurs, tibiae, and fibulae isn’t sacrilege; it’s a memorial.
From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026
That claim might seem like sacrilege to generations of basketball fans who watched golden eras of the NBA from Wilt/Russell to LeBron/Curry.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
The lorry motors on, the party continues and a sacrilege is committed.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023
And while it may be sacrilege to call Isabella Rossellini and Hope Davis superfluous, as an anthropology professor and a flamboyant mother, respectively, they are.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023
With that stroke the void moved from sacrilege to holiness.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing sacrilege
Things Fall Apart
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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