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
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
"I know that all rightminded Mancunians will be saddened that anyone would use this horrific, offensive language and deface this mural in the Gay Village. It is totally unacceptable," he added.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2024
“Well, no one said not to deface the mountain.”
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
In another video, Sweeney defaces an American Eagle billboard that reads “Sydney Sweeney has great jeans,” crossing out the word “jeans” and replacing it with “genes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2025
The extreme one offered here frequently defaces it.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
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
While through long years his burdening cross he bore," and concludes with this fine eulogy: "A brave, bright memory! his the stainless shield No shame defaces and no envy mars!
From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by E. E. Brown
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
Blank signage erected around the town ahead of the meter rollout has been defaced with the same word: "Resist".
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 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
He also told me that the first map he defaced was a map of the state.
From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman
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
“I see you have been defacing more good parchment, Yollo.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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