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Recent Examples of blaspheme
How to say anything about The Changeling without blaspheming its deep mystery, its reverence for the unspeakable, animal heart of creation?
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Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
Watching Rome, Shiv, and Ken attempt to battle, scrape, and betray their way into their father’s heart—and, conversely, seeing Logan withhold, meter out, and blaspheme his version of love back at them—propelled Succession through four glorious seasons.
—John Ortved, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2025
Carter, along with President Gerald Ford, restored truth and honesty to the White House after Nixon blasphemed the White House with his corruption, his manipulation and his devious ways.
—Dave Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 31 Dec. 2024
Greg has been blasphemed on national hockey shows up there, eh?
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024
Earlier this month, Abdul Rauf, a Muslim English teacher, was gunned down in Turbat after his students accused him of blaspheming in one of his lectures.
—Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2023
In one infamous case in 2010, Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, was sentenced to death, accused of blaspheming Islam.
—New York Times, 4 May 2020
To disguise ourselves forever would be to blaspheme his work of redeeming the world.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 30 Mar. 2020
Witnesses at the mosque said Abdelrhim Abdelghani shoved his way in at about 4 p.m., swiped a Quran off a shelf, took it to the nearby intersection of Northwest Fourth Avenue and Northwest 15th Vista and began defiling and blaspheming the holy book.
—Tonya Alanez, sun-sentinel.com, 26 June 2019
Literary Hub, 10 Feb. 2026
Watching Rome, Shiv, and Ken attempt to battle, scrape, and betray their way into their father’s heart—and, conversely, seeing Logan withhold, meter out, and blaspheme his version of love back at them—propelled Succession through four glorious seasons.
—John Ortved, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2025
Carter, along with President Gerald Ford, restored truth and honesty to the White House after Nixon blasphemed the White House with his corruption, his manipulation and his devious ways.
—Dave Anderson, Baltimore Sun, 31 Dec. 2024
Greg has been blasphemed on national hockey shows up there, eh?
—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 5 June 2024
Earlier this month, Abdul Rauf, a Muslim English teacher, was gunned down in Turbat after his students accused him of blaspheming in one of his lectures.
—Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Aug. 2023
In one infamous case in 2010, Asia Bibi, a Christian woman, was sentenced to death, accused of blaspheming Islam.
—New York Times, 4 May 2020
To disguise ourselves forever would be to blaspheme his work of redeeming the world.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 30 Mar. 2020
Witnesses at the mosque said Abdelrhim Abdelghani shoved his way in at about 4 p.m., swiped a Quran off a shelf, took it to the nearby intersection of Northwest Fourth Avenue and Northwest 15th Vista and began defiling and blaspheming the holy book.
—Tonya Alanez, sun-sentinel.com, 26 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blaspheme
Verb
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Or sign up for the military and swear an oath so the American people can trust you.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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Matas Buzelis swears Luka Dončić started it.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Mar. 2026
Verb
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According to Detroit legend, the Nain Rouge cursed the city and its founder hundreds of years ago.—
Veronica Ortega,
CBS News,
22 Mar. 2026
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Shaffer-Brockwell could be heard on video repeatedly cursing at the officer before biting his wrist while trying to avoid being handcuffed.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
21 Mar. 2026
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“Blaspheme.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/blaspheme. Accessed 26 Mar. 2026.
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