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Recent Examples of iconoclasm
The president’s iconoclasm creates its fair share of headaches both for Trump and his supporters.
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Noah Rothman, National Review, 29 Jan. 2025
Trump, this time, has chosen an outsider who shares his instinct for iconoclasm.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2025
Missing masterpieces For as long as humans have been making art, natural disasters, the ravages of time, theft and iconoclasm have threatened their creations’ survival.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
While Catholics invested in a rich visual tradition that represented God as an old man, the prophet Mohammed resolutely carried iconoclasm forward, focusing exclusively on the word.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Noah Rothman, National Review, 29 Jan. 2025
Trump, this time, has chosen an outsider who shares his instinct for iconoclasm.
—Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2025
Missing masterpieces For as long as humans have been making art, natural disasters, the ravages of time, theft and iconoclasm have threatened their creations’ survival.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
While Catholics invested in a rich visual tradition that represented God as an old man, the prophet Mohammed resolutely carried iconoclasm forward, focusing exclusively on the word.
—Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for iconoclasm
Noun
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The recent evolution of Mexican food in New York has been gratifying, not so much because of deviation from the classics but by the refining of them and giving them a modern twist in terms of color, presentation and better ingredients.—
John Mariani,
Forbes.com,
4 June 2025
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Transcriptions of episodes of the Outside Podcast are created with a mix of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain some grammatical errors or slight deviations from the audio.—
Outside Online,
Outside Online,
28 May 2025
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Many immigrant communities either ignore mental health challenges or see symptoms as evidence of spiritual deviance.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
6 June 2025
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This shift undermines the association of cannabis with criminality or deviance.—
Tribune Content Agency,
Mercury News,
15 Apr. 2025
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According to Iran’s Islamic Shariah law, converting from Islam is considered apostasy and is a crime punishable by death.—
Julie Turkewitz,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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Throughout its engagement with the OIC, the special envoy has prioritized the protection of human rights, routinely championing the equal rights of religious minorities and opposing laws that criminalize blasphemy and apostasy.—
Arsalan Suleman,
Foreign Affairs,
24 Aug. 2017
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According to the Nancy and Barbara, the Pentecostals in Cleveland recently experienced a schism over whether or not women should be allowed to wear pants.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 June 2025
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That’s been a big challenge for the Democrats lately and has caused schisms along the lines of the generation gap.—
Clarence Page,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2025
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Many more are disturbed by the politicization of churches and turned off by dogmas that promote hate and discord, finding religious teachings and traditions to be outdated and incompatible with their values.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 June 2025
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Indeed, such strife and discord have been the rule, not the exception.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
6 June 2025
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“Iconoclasm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/iconoclasm. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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