thwart
Example Sentences
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Yoon became South Korea's first sitting president to be taken into custody when he was detained in January last year after resisting arrest for weeks, using his presidential security detail to thwart law enforcement.
From Barron's
The long consignment to the wilderness thwarts “preservation, access, education, creative reuse, scholarship, etc., when most of the works are out of circulation and not benefiting any rights holders.”
From Los Angeles Times
Their plans were laid bare through their communication with Farouk and, as a result, the police were able to thwart them.
From BBC
He suggests that the magazine’s poems have “represented the country’s wildly divergent visions of a good life—and railed against thwarted hopes for it.”
As a result, better ideas never see the light of day; product defects are covered up; unethical practices continue unchecked; deals are thwarted.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
