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vandalize

[van-dl-ahyz] / ˈvæn dlˌaɪz /


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"I didn't vandalize anything," Hearn told The Washington Post last month.

From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026

Investigators believe he planned to vandalize Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Catholic church across the street, in the same manner.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2023

Yet Twombly grasped, I think, that life is plotless, that meaninglessness reigns — hence, perhaps, his urge to deface, to vandalize.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2023

Mr. Jordan said he believes the Department of Justice has the ability to prosecute people who vandalize crisis pregnancy centers.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

“And yes, if they’re going to go through all the hassle to vandalize one of my books, you’d think they’d check their spelling.”

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

Missouri Revised Statute 194.410 states that any person or entity that “knowingly disturbs, destroys, vandalizes, or damages a marked or unmarked human burial site commits a class D felony.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2021

In another tweet Tuesday, Trump said anyone who vandalizes or topples a statute could be charged under a federal law.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 23, 2020

Macron’s government has said it will crack down harder on unauthorized protests and get tougher on anyone who loots or vandalizes shops and monuments.

From Reuters ● Jan. 9, 2019

When Bart vandalizes a statue in the center of Springfield, he confesses to the whole town and is immediately forgiven.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2014

He draws in nail polish, sloshes gnarly ceramic sculptures with glaze, builds and vandalizes Formica plinths in mockery of Minimalism and makes street-wise, toxic-looking Rothkos, using black and fluorescent spray paint.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2010

On Monday, activists vandalized the entrance to Day Hall, home to Kotlikoff’s office.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

People vandalized and stole Ponce’s whiteboards, adding a dimension of drama to the tracker.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Late country music legend Dolly Parton will get a new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Friday, after the original one was vandalized, officials have announced.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Attorney Jeanine Pirro stepped to a lectern last month and evinced no doubt that her office would prove that a former Olympic canoeist, David Hearn, had vandalized the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Something about it makes me feel like all my insides are being vandalized.

From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez

Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro to prosecute David Hearn, a former Olympian who was accused of vandalizing the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial.

From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026

Iran’s prosecutor-general, Mohammad Movahedi-Azad, expanded that standard in January to include vandalizing public property and instructed prosecutors to pursue such cases without leniency.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

The Irvine Police Department has arrested a man suspected of vandalizing 13 Teslas with spray paint this month.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

The outages as well as regular shortages of food, medicine and other basics are spurring frustrations, with demonstrators vandalizing a provincial office of the Cuban Communist Party last weekend.

From Barron's ● Mar. 21, 2026

On Thursday, British authorities charged a pair of climate change activists for vandalizing Stonehenge, a prehistoric megalithic structure on a chalk plateau known as the Salisbury Plain.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024




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