spoliation
Example Sentences
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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
The phone’s data was then wiped, city officials have acknowledged, according to Marigold’s April 18 spoliation motion.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2022
There is usually an artist somewhere at the bottom of that story of spoliation.
From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2022
On the previous evening he was guilty of what Dr. Johnson would have considered a fitting herald of his spoliation of picture-galleries—the perpetration of a pun.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
