thwarted
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Wales' line-out issues continued when an attacking set-piece play five metres from Japan's line was thwarted by a not-straight Lake throw.
From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026
Our stories of justice, from murder mysteries to tales of thwarted romance, invariably climax not with revelation but with confession.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Rather, he sounded like what he was—a damaged, thwarted middle-aged boy soprano, one of the saddest things in the world.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
The officers have since thwarted roughly 400 master carton smuggling attempts, involving nearly 6,000 pre-labeled shipments of peptides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
He had a point: from the very beginning, jazz as a style thwarted definition, so various were its manifestations in different places.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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