iconoclasm

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Recent Examples of iconoclasm 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 Jewish iconoclasm is supported by another facet of Hebraic history: God is said to have spoken directly to the Jews in their own language. Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for iconoclasm
Recent Examples of Synonyms for iconoclasm
Noun
  • The Ramona Community Planning Group on May 1 unanimously approved a minor deviation that allows changes to Spirit of Joy’s original major use permit for their church project at the site, which fell through in 2021.
    Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 May 2025
  • This was a deviation from what happens in The Last of Us Part II video game, in which there is no town hall vote.
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This shift undermines the association of cannabis with criminality or deviance.
    Tribune Content Agency, Mercury News, 15 Apr. 2025
  • But this doesn’t erase their gender deviance, merely complicates it.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Whether his parents realize the extent of his apostasy isn’t clear.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The gap between swimsuit and swim shorts may not strike many as a meaningful sartorial schism.
    Eric Twardzik, Robb Report, 16 May 2025
  • In Nixon in China, the aggrieved president is heartfelt about healing a global schism.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • What all of these cases have in common is a truly gigantic deer, and then, sadly, lots of discord within the hunting community.
    Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 15 May 2025
  • In addition to the discord within the athletic department, Ritz acknowledged in an April 11 email to the community that he’s also dealt with two other serious issues involving staffers.
    Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 11 May 2025

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