sabotage
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"For many months now, espionage, sabotage and extremely far-reaching attempts to exert influence have been part of everyday life."
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
With the state report complete, and vigilante sabotage ruled out, Mulholland retook the inquest stand.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 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 and President Roosevelt wanted Hitler to believe that American spies had infiltrated the German sabotage school and the German Army.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
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
Meanwhile, Lynch, the Miami-based investor, had been asking the U.S. government to allow him to bid on the sabotaged Nord Stream Pipeline 2 if it came up for auction in a Swiss bankruptcy proceeding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 29, 2025
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
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
And now he has sabotaged this game in order to speak directly to me.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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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
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
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
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
I look up at the enormous holograms in the stadium that are replaying segments of the game, only to see myself, ignoring the others and sabotaging their moves.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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