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sabotage

[sab-uh-tahzh, sab-uh-tahzh] / ˈsæb əˌtɑʒ, ˌsæb əˈtɑʒ /




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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

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

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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