sabotage
Example Sentences
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization hoped its increased patrols in the Baltic Sea would prevent the sabotage of underwater cables.
Big businesses, especially in the defence and aerospace sector, but also French luxury goods firms, are increasingly keen to hire the students as they face relentless cybersecurity and spying threats as well as sabotage.
From BBC
Likewise, the end of slavery was not solely brought about by the Civil War in the U.S., but also by centuries of resistance through rebellions, wars, sabotage and self-emancipation, across the entire Americas.
From Los Angeles Times
Germany has been on high alert for sabotage activities directed at its infrastructure, including from foreign actors such as Russia.
From Barron's
Through a youth theatrical group, he met Jews who were surreptitiously distributing leaflets calling for resistance to the Nazis, including sabotage in factories.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.