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thwarting

noun as in defeat

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Does anyone really believe that thwarting Vice President Kamala Harris’ quest for the presidency would be good for Palestinians?

Baca, who stepped down in 2014, was convicted of thwarting an investigation into his department’s troubled jail system and then lying to federal investigators about it.

The new reporting provides possible context for some of Musk’s eyebrow-raising interventions in Ukraine, from his pro-Russia peace plan to his decision to shut off Starlink satellite internet service above Crimea, thwarting Ukrainian efforts to take back the illegally annexed peninsula and disable Russian military assets stationed there.

From Salon

The irony is that while Washington and its allies still call for two-state negotiations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasts of “thwarting” that goal for decades.

Key to thwarting that threat is the availability of updated vaccines, which have been formulated to boost protection against recently dominant circulating coronavirus strains — the same approach used to develop the annual flu shot.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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