spoliation
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Tate director Maria Balshaw said it was "a profound privilege to help reunite this work with its rightful heirs" and that she was "delighted to see the spoliation process working successfully to make this happen".
From BBC • Mar. 28, 2025
“The City’s conduct cannot be excused as ‘imperfect document management;’ ... its ‘explanation’ for its admitted spoliation is unconvincing to say the least.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2024
A week after the spoliation motion, on April 25, the city and Marigold filed to settle the case.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2022
And as museums and governments also reckon with demands to repatriate artifacts removed from former colonies, the legal precedents concerning Nazi spoliation have global significance.
From New York Times • Sep. 30, 2021
And the aggravating circumstance of all this spoliation of the men and women who are the country's ornament and boast is, that it is wholly our fault.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
