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It has clams — sometimes still in their shell — plus, some would say sacrilegiously, pecorino Romano cheese, along with garlic, dried chile, and perhaps oregano or parsley.

From Washington Post • Apr. 23, 2023

“That team was exciting that year, obviously led by Scottie and Toni Kukoc,” Wade said, forgetting Horace Grant and, sacrilegiously, Coach Phil Jackson.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2014

The engagement had been to Andy a sacrosanct thing; it was now sacrilegiously defaced by the hands of the two most bound to guard it.

From Second String by Hope, Anthony

For these were some of the men who under Philomelus of Phokis and Onomarchus sacrilegiously took Delphi, and shared in the plunder of the temple.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume I by Stewart, Aubrey

Then, leaving them to live or die as their subconsciousness determined, the sixteen mutineers sacrilegiously reëntered the cabin and devoured the dinner.

From "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea by Robertson, Morgan