vandal

A Scottish seaside town is locked in a battle with a vandal targeting local parking police.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

And yet here comes Simon Armitage, the poet laureate of the U.K., with his stunning new verse translation, not as a vandal of antiquity but as a lucid accomplice to its endurance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Often described as "elusive" and "secretive" by the press, the "guerrilla street artist" is a hero to some and a vandal to others.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

The founder of the triangle project, Patrick Carney, told KRON-TV that the vandal spray-painted the triangle in lines “that go back and forth. ... It damaged 26 of the tarps.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

Caroline doesn’t have a racist bone in her body, and she’s not a vandal, or any kind of evil person.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

In this case, he blamed vandals for damaging the pool.

From Slate ● Aug. 4, 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

“The evidence is clear, vandals have repeatedly caused damage to the Reflecting Pool. Some of these acts were even caught on camera,” Burgum wrote on social media.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

The new 6th Street Bridge, hailed as a civic landmark just steps away, was promptly stripped of its wiring by vandals and now sits pitch black at night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

On the radio, a vibrant voice said that gallant Biafran soldiers were flushing out the vandals around Abakaliki.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie