deface
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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
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
“Well, no one said not to deface the mountain.”
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
“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
One day he loves that woman and wants her to marry him; the next, he defaces her picture.
From Hand and Ring by Anna Katharine Green
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
The Stryker incident saw the company's employee login defaced with a message claiming data had been erased in a 'wiper' attack by the Iran-backed group of hacktivists.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
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
But his tombstone was defaced on Thursday morning, local authorities said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
“Someone came into our house and defaced it,” Freddie said, staring at me.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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
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
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