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Offord described Reform's slip into third place as "irritating" but said it would not "derail" their objectives.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

But waning momentum in the industrial sector threatens to derail a nascent recovery in the eurozone economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Heavy precipitation can also derail the soil compaction process, where crews lay down the soil in layers and go over each with a construction vehicle known as a roller.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

"You don't want to mess up," Sending says, adding that the wrong gift could potentially derail any larger objectives.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

She was a determined woman who didn't let the shooting derail her from her goals.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

When Evans derails the conversation again, a new question pops up — an occurrence in this film as natural and frequent as breathing.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

A striking photo of homes ablaze under the headline "Houses burn and train derails on hottest day" dominates the front of the Times.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

“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

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

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

From "Everything, Everything" by Nicola Yoon

The Drumcree parade dispute began in the mid-1990s and almost derailed the peace process at the time.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Shares of Oracle declined 3.5% after Bloomberg reported the company is attempting to put off payments if a New Mexico data-center project gets derailed or fails to come online in 2028 as planned.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Billy Bush, the veteran on-air host whose career was derailed by a crude off-camera conversation he had with President Trump in 2005, has signed on as a contributor to Fox News.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

If some of these satellites get hacked, damaged, derailed, or destroyed, America’s ability to fight a war would be seriously degraded.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Only the schedule is constantly shifting, derailed by our lack of a stamp from an official or delayed when Effie breaks one of her high heels.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

A military campaign in Lebanon risks derailing those gains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Iran's ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, warned on Tuesday that violations of the ceasefire framework risked derailing broader diplomatic progress.

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

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

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds