iconoclasm

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Recent Examples of iconoclasm The president’s iconoclasm creates its fair share of headaches both for Trump and his supporters. Noah Rothman, National Review, 29 Jan. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for iconoclasm
Recent Examples of Synonyms for iconoclasm
Noun
  • The recent evolution of Mexican food in New York has been gratifying, not so much because of deviation from the classics but by the refining of them and giving them a modern twist in terms of color, presentation and better ingredients.
    John Mariani, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • Transcriptions of episodes of the Outside Podcast are created with a mix of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain some grammatical errors or slight deviations from the audio.
    Outside Online, Outside Online, 28 May 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
  • This is not the first time that there has been a schism among students at Hillel.
    Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025
  • The schism had an immediate effect on the Ukrainian army’s U.S.-made High-Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems.
    David Axe, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Gone was the discord and rudeness that is often synonymous with the Big Apple.
    Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 25 May 2025
  • Evidently, the discord stemmed from their division of labor.
    Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 27 Apr. 2025

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“Iconoclasm.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/iconoclasm. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.

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