graffiti

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Recent Examples of graffiti In under a hundred years, Florence’s equivalent of a New York minute, the majority were bordered up, graffitied over, repurposed into doorbell posts, or completely covered. Erin Florio, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Jan. 2020 There have been at least 12 episodes since Nov. 6, including anti-Asian and anti-black slurs graffitied in residence halls and a swastika in a snow bank near an apartment complex where students live. Doha Madani, NBC News, 20 Nov. 2019 Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times More than 2,500 police officers patrol New York City’s subway, where crime is down sharply from the era of rampant violence and graffiti three decades ago. New York Times, 5 Nov. 2019 Fernandez was proposing to have graffiti-like murals on each of the six panels on the transportation center, with panels representing Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena. Anthony Clark Carpio, Burbank Leader, 27 Aug. 2019 See All Example Sentences for graffiti
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  • Those who want or need assistance can tag and set their luggage outside their stateroom the night before disembarking and pick it up inside the cruise terminal.
    Nathan Diller, USA Today, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Maybe the club should have tagged the new stadium as the 'Wembley of Islington' and got the government to help pay for it like that tax dodging grifter in Monte Carlo is attempting up north.
    Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
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  • Kick Kennedy also was featured in news reports about her father’s affinity for desecrating animal corpses.
    Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The company says that Greenpeace included false statements in a letter to the company’s banks that asserted construction of the pipeline desecrated tribal burial grounds and important cultural sites.
    Jennifer Safstrom, The Conversation, 11 Mar. 2025
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  • Their son and daughter-in-law, Cameron Bott, 35, and his wife, Diana, 36, whose nearby home was damaged in the tornado, initiated a discussion about starting a GoFundMe to offset potential insurance shortfalls in rebuilding the gas station.
    Tammy Ljungblad, Kansas City Star, 9 Apr. 2025
  • There was a fire in 2023 that damaged part of the nightclub, authorities said.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 8 Apr. 2025
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  • Charging stations have been defaced and burned too, and local Tesla dealerships have been picketed, including this weekend in Burbank.
    Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The pressure builds until Eddie has a meltdown in public, shaking and threatening the kids who defaced his car.
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 17 Mar. 2025
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  • The New Jersey man who vandalized the Rutgers Islamic center last year was sentenced on Wednesday to six months in prison.
    Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2025
  • The Boston Police Department (BPD) is asking for the public's help in tracking down a woman who is suspected of vandalizing a Tesla with a brick on Sunday night.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 3 Apr. 2025
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  • Earlier in the episode, Whitfield and Lindy violate Mabel — then pour hot coffee on her — before Whitfield pushes her down on the breakfast table and rapes her.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Not the least of which is that the terms of the settlement clearly violate antitrust law, which was the grounds for the lawsuit in the first place.
    Joe Sabin, Forbes.com, 6 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Unruly tourists have caused traffic jams and public commotions, offended local sensibilities, trashed the environment, and desecrated sacred sites.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The motion added that eventually the woman’s home was sold and her belongings trashed — including her family Bible and her husband’s flag commemorating his military service with the Tuskegee Airmen.
    Cristóbal Reyes, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2025

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“Graffiti.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graffiti. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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