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One middle-aged American man wore a cream dinner jacket to be desecrated as a souvenir.

From BBC • Sep. 24, 2025

“That flag is a symbol of our highest ideals as a nation and represents the promise of America. It should never be desecrated in that way,” Harris said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2024

In a London auditorium, a work of art is being desecrated.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2024

But Audubon was also a slaveholder who opposed abolition and desecrated the graves of Native Americans, a legacy which still causes harm today, Wells said.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2024

It was easy now to picture what this place would one day become: that sad and desecrated wreck I had first discovered weeks ago.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs