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Recent Examples of spoliation
That amounts to spoliation, the defense claims, and should result in the dismissal of the charges against Trump.
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Perry Stein, Washington Post, 30 June 2024
The West should also prepare for a Russia that inflicts even greater spoliation on a global scale—but not drive it to do so.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
Epic filed a motion to sanction Google for alleged spoliation of evidence in October.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
The motion for spoliation sanctions is the latest move in the lawsuit by the widow of Kobe Bryant for severe emotional distress after learning that deputies and firefighters shared gruesome images of the crash scene where her husband, daughter Gianna and seven others died in January 2020.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2021
There is usually an artist somewhere at the bottom of that story of spoliation.
—New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
Members of the Isle de Jean Charles band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe, the Pointe-au-Chien Tribe, and the Houma Nation experienced the spoliation of their current and ancestral homes.
—Anya Groner, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2021
The audit's Twitter account strikes a different tone, accusing the county of deleting election databases and spoliation of evidence.
—Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2021
The suit accuses Gladney of assault, battery, false imprisonment and spoliation of evidence.
—Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 30 July 2021
Perry Stein, Washington Post, 30 June 2024
The West should also prepare for a Russia that inflicts even greater spoliation on a global scale—but not drive it to do so.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2024
Epic filed a motion to sanction Google for alleged spoliation of evidence in October.
—Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2023
The motion for spoliation sanctions is the latest move in the lawsuit by the widow of Kobe Bryant for severe emotional distress after learning that deputies and firefighters shared gruesome images of the crash scene where her husband, daughter Gianna and seven others died in January 2020.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 8 Nov. 2021
There is usually an artist somewhere at the bottom of that story of spoliation.
—New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
Members of the Isle de Jean Charles band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe, the Pointe-au-Chien Tribe, and the Houma Nation experienced the spoliation of their current and ancestral homes.
—Anya Groner, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2021
The audit's Twitter account strikes a different tone, accusing the county of deleting election databases and spoliation of evidence.
—Staff Reports, The Arizona Republic, 25 Sep. 2021
The suit accuses Gladney of assault, battery, false imprisonment and spoliation of evidence.
—Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY, 30 July 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for spoliation
Noun
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For example, barnacles secrete glycoproteins as a mechanical defense against predation.—
Melissa Cristina Marquez,
Forbes,
12 Jan. 2025
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The second- and third-most impactful factors were wolf predation and parasitism by carotid arterial worms (E. schneideri).—
Katie Hill,
Outdoor Life,
6 Nov. 2024
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These are curated from the titles that were most frequently picked up in the Criterion Closet, that magical room full of the company’s releases that visiting filmmakers and luminaries are invited to peruse and pillage.—
Vulture Staff,
Vulture,
15 Nov. 2024
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At only 6 years old, Esai Reed has endured three emergency evacuations from orphanages across Haiti as gangs pillage and plunder their way through once peaceful communities.—
Dánica Coto,
The Christian Science Monitor,
23 Sep. 2024
Noun
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Swiss zoologists, botanists, engineers, priests and nuns from missionary societies, merchants and rentier businesspeople, warlords and mercenaries ventured out to participate in plunder and looting as adjuncts or sidekicks of the stronger world powers and financiers.—
Percy Zvomuya,
Artforum,
1 Nov. 2024
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Major museums in the West devoted to the presentation and preservation of art objects have fitfully begun acknowledging their ties to histories of violence and plunder.—
Leslie Camhi,
The New Yorker,
11 Oct. 2024
Noun
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During World War II, the Roosevelt administration acted to defend the waterway from Nazi sabotage plans.—
Michael Crowley,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2025
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Russia has denied allegations of involvement in underwater cable sabotage.—
Caitlin Danaher,
CNN,
31 Jan. 2025
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Because mutually assured destruction has already occurred.—
James Hibberd,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Feb. 2025
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The epic destruction that surrounds the Villa today adds an unnerving element to the exhibition’s art historical context.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Spoliation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spoliation. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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