sabotage

When Bertha’s down-to-earth sister, Monica, threatens to ruin the overall aesthetic with a dowdy frock, some light sabotage leads Monica to accept Bertha’s previously worn Season 1 gown.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Wegner himself said earlier this month he would not run for re-election after months of criticism over his handling of a major blackout in January apparently caused by sabotage.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

New proposed laws in the U.K. seek to increase penalties for subsea sabotage, updating codes that date to when telegraph cables were first laid in the 19th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

The purpose is to transform accountability into victimhood and failure into sabotage.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026

He did not want to sabotage his discovery by taking anything from the cabinet.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Ms. Moyer-Nocchi repeatedly, bewilderingly sabotages her considerable achievements by not bothering to get small but significant particulars right.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026

Clodio wears a dress — because he insists, “Revenge is best in a dress” — and giddily kicks his feet in manic joy as he sabotages things.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024

Ankara said the one-sided declaration was “a step that sabotages the normalization process.”

From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2024

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

Cyber attacks are common, and undersea cables have been sabotaged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Africa's largest oil producer has increased production in recent years in part by cracking down on theft while also hiring former militants who sabotaged pipelines to act as security.

From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026

According to police, the suspect is believed to have sabotaged the payment system via a cyber attack, getting the system to authorise his transaction after entering only one cent as the charged amount.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2026

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

If she sabotaged Kaz’s mission, would it cost Matthias his pardon?

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

But McLaughlin did not merely alienate the judiciary; she consistently undermined the administration’s legal arguments, sabotaging lawyers’ efforts to cover up unlawful conduct by boasting about it on social media.

From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2026

In pursuit of perfection, Kelly, who faces Bakhram Murtazaliev for the IBF light-middleweight world title in Newcastle on Saturday, was sabotaging his chances of success.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026

And while he wasn’t thrilled about spending nights at the trailer, it was the only surefire way to stop the delinquents— or whoever was sabotaging the construction site—from jumping the fence and going wild.

From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen