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[thwawrt] / θwɔrt /


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Those lawsuits failed, but Venice Dell proponents alleged in a July 2024 lawsuit that Park and Feldstein Soto took up where neighborhood critics failed in court and worked behind the scenes to thwart the project.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

That way, goals like building an emergency fund or creating flexibility within one’s finances are easier to connect to, she said — and can also thwart the feeling of being overwhelmed.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026

"These disorders manifest in current symptoms of unending, synergistic, and complex delusions that thwart a rational understanding of his imminent execution," his lawyers argued.

From BBC • May 21, 2026

A small town in Maryland has found an unconventional way to thwart Homeland Security’s national push to stand up detention centers: Snails.

From Slate • Apr. 30, 2026

But he stopped: there was a rucksack in it, under the thwart.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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