sabotage
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In the wake of the tragedy, rumors of sabotage were rampant: Some persist to this day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
They are not doing high-profile sabotage of corporations; they are not shooting it out in the coal mines.
From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026
Moscow has denied involvement in sabotage attacks in Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Several acts of suspected sabotage have been reported in Germany in the past 24 hours alone, including two attacks on electricity substations, one in the east and one in the west near Cologne.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
The Durban Command was led by a sabotage expert named Bruno Mtolo, whom I had never met before, but would meet again under dramatically different circumstances.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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In his pain and anger, he sabotages the play, turns the Hook-Pan showdown into a real fight, and leaves an audience full of kids wondering if Neverland is always like this.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
“Psychological research has shown us that panic amplifies helplessness and sabotages rational thought,” Michael Valdez, an expert in neurology and addictive behaviors, told Salon.
From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2025
Whether in Violet’s hand or buzzing on the table, it sabotages her ability to converse; it’s an exaggeration of how a tool intended to connect people wedges them apart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
It seems to mean well, even as it sabotages investor performance.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2024
"Then the Earthman—I mean the Earthman who sabotages the rockets—has to be a part of the technical staff," Rick said.
From The Scarlet Lake Mystery by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
Grantham’s latest bearish case is that U.S. stocks could be sabotaged this year by an overheated IPO market.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026
But police redeployment ordered at the weekend risks being "sabotaged" by the VIPs and the officers who get paid for their service.
From Barron's ● Nov. 26, 2025
Todt died in an air crash shortly afterward, leading to suspicions that his plane had been sabotaged, though these have never been proved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 24, 2025
A Ukrainian national has been arrested by police in Poland as part of the investigation into the 2022 explosions that sabotaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea, his lawyer has said.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
“The movement must not be sabotaged by internal strife.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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Barrot said the attacks targeted government ministries, companies, and service operators, with the aim "either of capturing information or sabotaging operations, for example rail infrastructure, as was the case in Poland".
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
The music mogul also accused JOP — who founded his own label Street Mob Records in 2018 — of sabotaging his own bandmates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
Inside the legal system, though, McLaughlin is known for something else: Actively sabotaging the Department of Homeland Security in court through her crass, often false public statements.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2026
But on Tuesday night, after nearly sabotaging itself once again, Scotland put an end to nearly three decades of heartbreak.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025
“You have been sabotaging this endeavor,” Chandresh says.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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