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spoiler

noun as in buccaneer

noun as in looter

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noun as in plunderer

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His campaign was largely funded by conservative donors to serve as a spoiler for Joe Biden and then Kamala Harris.

From Slate

Also shining a light is Úrsula Corberó as Nuria, the series’ nicest, sanest, least compromised person, whose entire character has for no good reason been declared a spoiler, even though she’s essential to clarifying and/or confusing the issue of how bad or good the Jackal really is.

We know now that Jill Stein was not ultimately the 2016 spoiler that sank Hillary Clinton in swing states.

From Slate

While third-party nominees are ostensibly in the race to win, they’ve historically had the biggest impact when they are able to present a real threat of acting as a spoiler to major parties.

From Salon

So far this method had allowed the Working Families Party to maintain its ballot line in a state in which the fusion party system was explicitly designed to stamp out third parties, dating all the way back to former President Franklin Roosevelt’s re-election campaigns, when Democrats feared labor parties could play the spoiler.

From Salon

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