scuttle
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The capacity crunch has caused consternation among power users, forced companies to scuttle products and led to reliability problems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
And what does success in these negotiations look like - a fully-formed peace deal, or just productive initial talks that don't scuttle the temporary ceasefire?
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
That helped scuttle its recent failed merger talks with Rio Tinto by “making the valuation tricky,” Whiteside says.
From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026
Paramount executives have leaned into a multi-pronged strategy to scuttle the Netflix deal since December.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 26, 2026
When he smashed a scuttle between two fingers, Jinny thought Ess was going to cry.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
Meanwhile, the agency last summer scuttled Capricor’s treatment for patients with advanced Duchenne muscular dystrophy because it claimed its randomized control trial for patients was too small to determine definitively that the treatment worked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
By 1992, more than $50 million had been spent in restoration and renovation, but the project was scuttled by a bankruptcy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
The CEO’s dismissal scuttled any hopes of a quick reset.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
The disclosure of the scuttled partnership came as Snap logged a narrower loss and higher revenue in its latest quarter, during which daily active users ticked up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
A herd of tiny microceratopses scuttled past, squealing and grunting.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
After the judge forbade them from using certain PowerPoint slides, Halem’s former attorneys decided against presenting an opening statement to jurors, scuttling any possibility of a favorable outcome, Weimortz said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
And so, some still mull just scuttling the agency.
From Slate ● Jun. 15, 2026
When the news came out, however, Unilever’s stock tanked, eventually scuttling the deal and souring management on bigger ones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
The EU ended up accepting it instead of scuttling a deal altogether.
From Barron's ● Feb. 3, 2026
In America he used to have a kind of chipmunk-like energy, always scuttling here and there.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
Vocabulary lists containing scuttle
Of Mice and Men
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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