scuttling

Example Sentences

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The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday how some AI companies were scuttling products and even applying limits to the amount of tokens available, citing a computing capacity crunch.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

The EU ended up accepting it instead of scuttling a deal altogether.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

But the deal between the firm and the harbour board fell through, and the contract went instead to another company which then carried out the scuttling.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2025

At that time, China didn’t rank in the top fifth, though it was scuttling upward.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2025

Griffith’s experiment may have stuffed genetics into a one-way taxicab and sent it scuttling toward a strange future—but Avery was reluctant to climb on that bandwagon.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee