swastika
noun
also swä-ˈstē-\
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Eventually, the swastika-makers got bored and moved on. — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, "Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet," 12 Mar. 2018 The New York Police Department was investigating swastikas scrawled on the walls of an aquatics and fitness center in Manhattan as a hate crime, a police official said Thursday. — Katie Honan, WSJ, "New York Police Probe Swastikas at Sports Facility," 7 Mar. 2019 One summer night in 1935, a dozen American radicals boarded a German luxury liner in New York Harbor, tore loose the swastika flag from her bow and threw it into the Hudson River. — Richard Snow, WSJ, "‘The Agitator’ Review: You Can’t Fly That Flag Here!," 22 Mar. 2019 By now, even a preteen scrawling a swastika on a school bench probably does so with a degree of media-knowingness. — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, "How the News Became Fake," 25 Jan. 2019 Cohn, who is Jewish, was especially shaken when one of his daughters found a swastika on her college dorm room. — Robert Costa, The Seattle Times, "New book reveals a ‘nervous breakdown’ of Trump’s presidency," 4 Sep. 2018 Earlier that year, the star was defaced in February of 2016 when someone spray-painted it with a swastika. — Adam Shaw, Fox News, "Anti-Trump vandalism sweeps country: Yacht, Hollywood star latest targets," 9 Aug. 2018 In October, the town’s library was defaced with a swastika. — Alana Levene, BostonGlobe.com, "Anti-Semitic slur and swastika found at Reading middle school," 22 June 2018 But the mural was vandalized over the weekend when a swastika was spray-painted on top of the students’ tribute. — Kim Quindlen, Teen Vogue, "Duke University Tree of Life Memorial Mural Vandalized," 20 Nov. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'swastika.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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