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Recent Examples of graffiti
What parts of the dining room walls that aren’t obscured by supplies are graffitied with well wishes in English, Spanish and Mandarin, and taped with paper bills like a neighborhood bar.
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Amy Scattergood, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2020
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
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Amy Scattergood, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2020
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for graffiti
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In the first inning, Cameron retired his first two batters before Luis Rengifo tagged him with a three-run homer.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
5 Sep. 2025
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After tagging, the butterflies are sent on their way south for their migration, but many may not make it to Mexico.—
Alyssa N. Salcedo,
jsonline.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Punishment for burning the national flag varies, with some requiring those who desecrate a flag to pay a fine, such as Italy, while others, like South Korea, enforce multiple years of jail-time.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Aug. 2025
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When Melanson failed to comply with Lino’s instructions, Lino allegedly beat the older man with a baseball bat and then desecrated his corpse.—
Matthew Medsger,
Boston Herald,
5 Aug. 2025
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Washing a couch or sofa, professional carpet and upholstery cleaner Ben Brazell says, is more precarious than carpet cleaning because the upholstery is often a lot more expensive and much easier to damage.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
8 Sep. 2025
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Private homes, farm buildings and power lines were damaged, Gusev said.—
David Brennan,
ABC News,
7 Sep. 2025
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The Greenwich Village apartment building of New York Times Executive Editor Joseph Kahn was defaced with red paint and graffiti in the early hours of Friday morning.—
Danya Gainor,
CNN Money,
30 Aug. 2025
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Extremist groups use attacks to disinform, damage or deface sites.—
Carlos Morales,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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The mural has been vandalized before, and already the Native man’s genitals were barely visible because someone had previously tried to obscure the paint.—
Shomik Mukherjee,
Mercury News,
6 Sep. 2025
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Meanwhile, several masked people wearing dark clothing breached the fences and vandalized the building, according to officials and court documents.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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However, a Minnesota court struck down the binary trigger ban, arguing that the legislature violated the state constitution’s single-subject clause by burying the ban inside a sprawling spending bill.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
4 Sep. 2025
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And Congress is unlikely to grant him new tariff powers after the courts just ruled that doing so unilaterally violated the separation of powers.—
Brett Erickson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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Separately, but related, Baldoni’s former publicist Stephanie Jones is suing Baldoni, Nathan and publicist Jennifer Abel for trashing her reputation.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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That was when rioters trashed and toppled Confederate statues and other symbols deemed racist and discriminatory.—
Peter Lucas,
Boston Herald,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Graffiti.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/graffiti. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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