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- noun Plural form of
defacement .
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Examples
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April 2001: The collision of a U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane and a Chinese F-8 fighter sparks denial-of-service attacks and Web defacements against U.S. sites.
U.S. Homes In on China Spying Siobhan Gorman 2011
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The parents of Mitchell Henderson, a teenager from Rochester, Minnesota, who shot himself in 2006, were subjected to a year and a half of nuisance calls as well as defacements of his MySpace memorial page.
Cyber bullies are vile, but should we be locking them up? | Catherine Bennett 2011
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May 1999: The U.S. bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade leads to a series of defacements of U.S. government websites by Chinese hackers.
U.S. Homes In on China Spying Siobhan Gorman 2011
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The attack comes amid a spree of online break-ins and defacements that have targeted governments and corporations.
Hacker Group Says It Stole Military Email Addresses Andrew Morse 2011
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Flickr's Joe D! has a laugh-out-loud set of 75 "refaced" US bank-notes, in which the various dead presidents are reinvented as a series of ever-funnier defacements.
Boing Boing 2008
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But in a feat of inspired scholarship, Duffy has turned to the very features of these books that have rankled those who study them as works of art: the jottings in the margins and on the flyleaves made by their owners, hitherto regarded as defacements at worst and proof of provenance at best.
Life in the Margins 2007
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But in a feat of inspired scholarship, Duffy has turned to the very features of these books that have rankled those who study them as works of art: the jottings in the margins and on the flyleaves made by their owners, hitherto regarded as defacements at worst and proof of provenance at best.
Life in the Margins 2007
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Last December was one of the bloodiest months for cyber attacks and website defacements directed at India.
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But in a feat of inspired scholarship, Duffy has turned to the very features of these books that have rankled those who study them as works of art: the jottings in the margins and on the flyleaves made by their owners, hitherto regarded as defacements at worst and proof of provenance at best.
Life in the Margins 2007
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Sure beats my photoshop defacements of tourist traps and paint company logos, anyway.
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