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Recent Examples of blaspheme
For his followers, blaspheming the Holocaust and celebrating Hitler became a way to signal contempt for the political religion of postwar liberalism.
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Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
China banned the ad for insulting national dignity and blaspheming traditional culture.
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Dr. Shan Nair,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2026
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.
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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.
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Dave Anderson,
Baltimore Sun,
31 Dec. 2024
Greg has been blasphemed on national hockey shows up there, eh?
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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.
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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.
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New York Times,
4 May 2020
Antonia Hitchens,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
China banned the ad for insulting national dignity and blaspheming traditional culture.
—
Dr. Shan Nair,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2026
How to say anything about The Changeling without blaspheming its deep mystery, its reverence for the unspeakable, animal heart of creation?
—
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for blaspheme
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Both men swear to put on a show in the biggest fights of their careers.
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Some Southerners swear that haint blue also repels wasps and keeps them from nesting around a porch ceiling.
Verb
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The Cubs lost 8-6 and the cheers turned to jeers and swears as relief pitcher Jacob Webb cursed his own performance after the game.
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As the inscription had been damaged, researchers couldn’t decipher whether this tablet had cursed four slaves or whether four slaves had cried out to the Egyptian gods and demi-heroes, who knows?
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