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“This is now the third attempt to deface this sacred memorial and turn it into a vanity project for one man’s ego,” Beatty’s attorneys Norm Eisen and Nathaniel Zelinsky said in a statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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

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

If we build it, they will deface it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

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

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

Like the art it defaces, protest must evolve to stay relevant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2024

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

The lower comedy of the play is identical in motive with that which defaces the master-work of Ford: more stupid and offensive it hardly could be.

From The Age of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne

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

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

A recent viral video of defaced artwork on a public wall in the central Indian city of Gwalior has led to outrage on social media and among activists.

From BBC ● Jan. 9, 2026

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

Other climate protesters around the world have taken to defacing works of art hanging in museums, but a spokesman for the New York group said that it had not engaged in that particular protest tactic.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 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

“There’s laws against defacing and damaging gravesites and anyone that is caught in any act ... will obviously be met with the consequences of being arrested,” a police source said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2024

“I see you have been defacing more good parchment, Yollo.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin