derail
Example Sentences
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She added that while price pressures are picking up, the recovery in economic momentum since late last year has yet to be derailed.
Embassy in Havana threatens to derail a larger effort to expand private-fuel flows into Cuba.
“The move comes amid concerns that escalating tensions could derail global growth, a backdrop that has triggered the largest two-day decline in U.S. equities in a year,” the bank added.
From Barron's
During the early 2010s Arab Spring, elevated oil prices didn’t derail Malaysia’s growth, and banks maintained solid asset quality, he notes.
With tens of thousands of components, small deviations can derail performance, he says, so engineers adjust, test and repeat.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
