derail

The Times reported today that Nvidia intervened last year to derail a Commerce Department investigation into whether Alice Huang’s company was smuggling chips into China.

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2026

The country's railway authority said two trains travelling south from Giza and Cairo collided, causing several carriages to derail and fall down an embankment.

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

Every game is a must-win and Washington isn’t going to derail them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

“The buildout has too much momentum for either party to derail; power, permits and people are the real constraints,” the analysts at said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Mr. de Klerk and I spoke privately and agreed that we would not let Hani’s murder derail the negotiations.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

“Most people think of retirement risk in terms of market crashes,” said Jeff Judge, a certified financial planner in Forest Hill, Md. “Healthcare is the one that actually derails the most plans I’ve seen.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 15, 2026

Their closeness derails Rausch’s “three steps ahead” scheming.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2026

If the ongoing scientific debate "derails that effort to try and understand if they're bad for us, that's not helpful", he said.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

Dodgers pitcher Tyler Glasnow laments not having an opportunity to play in the postseason after another elbow injury derails his season.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2024

My sudden shaking derails my mom’s questioning and sends her into doctor mode.

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

A lack of hotel space, however, nearly derailed “North of North” entirely.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Could it now be the catalyst to repair a campaign that looked to have been derailed in just two months.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Investors showed they are alive to one of the big risks in AI, that hopes for trillions of dollars of capital spending might be derailed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026

“But thus far, I think the growth story is challenged, but not derailed in any way.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Unless they've derailed, you pretty much know where to find them.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

But that’s not a new development: The chart above shows that has happened multiple times before, without derailing the longer-term uptrend.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Cucinelli’s high-end positioning has left it almost alone, alongside storied Parisian fashion house Chanel, as a brand untarnished by the derailing of luxury’s supercycle, analysts at Berenberg wrote in a recent note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

“It sucks,” he said of the injury derailing him down the stretch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Pezeshkian also warned Tuesday that a return by the United States to "a policy of pressure and threats" risked derailing diplomatic efforts to end the war.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

This was the only way to keep Cynthia from disrupting and derailing the entire lesson.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds