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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

One neighbor trained his dog to deface Patterson’s property.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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

“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

But, on the whole, as time adds much to the sacredness of Symbols, so likewise in his progress he at length defaces or even desecrates them; and Symbols, like all terrestrial Garments, wax old.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

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

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

A mural of Rashford, who led a campaign against the government's plans to scrap free school meals out of term time, was defaced in south Manchester following the final.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2025

Part of me looked down in horror at how I’d defaced Mom’s work, but the other part of me giggled.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Who knew that defacing images of Satan was a popular cultural practice at the time?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

San Francisco police have arrested a man accused of defacing the famed Pink Triangle, a symbol of LGBTQ+ rights that is installed annually during Pride Month on top of the city’s landmark Twin Peaks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2025

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

Asked about his evolution, Maupal said he never considered himself a “rebel artist,” or the type of graffiti artist who remains anonymous because his artwork is, legally speaking, defacing a public space.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2024

It was defacing, it was taking away someone’s face.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood