thwarts

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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 • Dec. 30, 2025

It brings to mind this concept of malicious compliance, where you’re technically doing what you’re supposed to, but in a way that actually thwarts the goals of the powers that be.

From Slate • Aug. 15, 2025

In what are called Darling chestnuts, however, a CRISPR-modified wheat gene is inserted into the tree and thwarts this acid with minimal genetic alteration.

From Salon • Dec. 18, 2023

And then, tensions stretched to the breaking point, the book thwarts all expectations, leaving behind a feeling of lingering unease.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2023

Sometimes she’d be going on very intensely then come to a sudden stop with something like: “What is it? What is it? What can it be that thwarts us?”

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro