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vandalize

[van-dl-ahyz] / ˈvæn dlˌaɪz /


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"I didn't vandalize anything," Hearn told The Washington Post last month.

From Barron's Jul. 31, 2026

San Francisco police said they responded to two separate attempts to break in to or vandalize a Scientology property near the city’s Chinatown neighborhood in recent weeks.

From Los Angeles Times May 8, 2026

Yet Twombly grasped, I think, that life is plotless, that meaninglessness reigns — hence, perhaps, his urge to deface, to vandalize.

From Washington Post Jan. 14, 2023

Mr. Jordan said he believes the Department of Justice has the ability to prosecute people who vandalize crisis pregnancy centers.

From Washington Times Jan. 11, 2023

“And yes, if they’re going to go through all the hassle to vandalize one of my books, you’d think they’d check their spelling.”

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

Missouri Revised Statute 194.410 states that any person or entity that “knowingly disturbs, destroys, vandalizes, or damages a marked or unmarked human burial site commits a class D felony.”

From Seattle Times Sep. 14, 2021

In another tweet Tuesday, Trump said anyone who vandalizes or topples a statute could be charged under a federal law.

From Seattle Times Jun. 23, 2020

Macron’s government has said it will crack down harder on unauthorized protests and get tougher on anyone who loots or vandalizes shops and monuments.

From Reuters Jan. 9, 2019

When Bart vandalizes a statue in the center of Springfield, he confesses to the whole town and is immediately forgiven.

From Slate Aug. 21, 2014

He draws in nail polish, sloshes gnarly ceramic sculptures with glaze, builds and vandalizes Formica plinths in mockery of Minimalism and makes street-wise, toxic-looking Rothkos, using black and fluorescent spray paint.

From New York Times Feb. 12, 2010

Attorney Jeanine Pirro stepped to a lectern last month and evinced no doubt that her office would prove that a former Olympic canoeist, David Hearn, had vandalized the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

On Sunday, Trump took to Truth Social to announce that "work will begin immediately on fixing the seriously vandalized Reflecting Pool".

From BBC Jun. 22, 2026

Julie Menin, speaker of the New York City Council, wrote on social media that "multiple synagogues and private homes in Queens were vandalized overnight with swastikas and other antisemitic graffiti."

From Barron's May 4, 2026

In 2022, his Persian Gulf Cafe in Westwood was vandalized, its glass front door shattered, after he shared images on Instagram of a memorial at the cafe honoring Iranian women in anti-government protests that year.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 14, 2026

Something about it makes me feel like all my insides are being vandalized.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

Iran’s prosecutor-general, Mohammad Movahedi-Azad, expanded that standard in January to include vandalizing public property and instructed prosecutors to pursue such cases without leniency.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

The Irvine Police Department is requesting help from the public in identifying and locating a man suspected of vandalizing about 13 Teslas with spray paint.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

A former US Olympian accused of vandalizing Washington's newly renovated Reflecting Pool was charged on Thursday with a felony and could face up to 10 years in prison if convicted, a federal prosecutor said.

From Barron's Jul. 2, 2026

On Thursday, British authorities charged a pair of climate change activists for vandalizing Stonehenge, a prehistoric megalithic structure on a chalk plateau known as the Salisbury Plain.

From Salon Nov. 16, 2024

In theory, the 30/500 rule serves as a safeguard since new users are more likely than experienced accounts to try vandalizing the page.

From Slate Jun. 4, 2024




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