as in destroyer
a person who destroys or damages something deliberately; a person who performs sabotage
The car's tires were slashed by saboteurs.
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Recent Examples of saboteur
Next year when January 6 insurrectionists and election saboteurs like Tina Peter are pardoned and election deniers and their silent enablers assume cabinet posts and leadership of powerful congressional committees, try not to be cynical.
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Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 11 Nov. 2024
Poland’s national prosecutor’s office said the saboteurs’ goal was to test sending parcels that would ultimately be sent to the U.S. and Canada.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
Now, for those who fail to download a software patch for their gear shifters—yes, bike components now get software updates—there may be hacker saboteurs to contend with, too.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2024
Others, such as the Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist Westbrook Pegler, skipped the niceties and went straight to accusing their fellow citizens of being enemy saboteurs.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
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Krista Kafer, The Denver Post, 11 Nov. 2024
Poland’s national prosecutor’s office said the saboteurs’ goal was to test sending parcels that would ultimately be sent to the U.S. and Canada.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
Now, for those who fail to download a software patch for their gear shifters—yes, bike components now get software updates—there may be hacker saboteurs to contend with, too.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2024
Others, such as the Pulitzer Prize-winning conservative columnist Westbrook Pegler, skipped the niceties and went straight to accusing their fellow citizens of being enemy saboteurs.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saboteur
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Ties were so strained, for example, that in 2018 Japan’s Defense Ministry charged that a South Korean navy destroyer directed a targeting radar system at Japanese military patrol aircraft, charges that South Korea denied.Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2024
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It was originally designed as a helicopter destroyer but is undergoing conversion to a light aircraft carrier.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024
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In the fall of 2015, vandals with pruning shears cut down 10 percent of the vines on one of his plots.Mike DeSimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 27 Oct. 2024
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On the same night, 15 vandals on the Upper East Side splattered the Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations with red paint.Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 1 Aug. 2024
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The story of its existence—never safe from the wrecker’s ball and once, in 1997, devastated by a fire so hot the tiles fell off—begins with railroad baron Cornelius Vanderbilt opening Grand Central Terminal in 1913, putting the Oyster Bar in its belly.John Mariani, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Then the skit begins to outline the story of Domingo, Marcello Hernandez’s charming home wrecker who shows up to set to record straight direct from Domingo.Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2024
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Photo: Brown Harris Stevens Above the bedroom is a double-height library, which turns the sloping ceiling behind a mansard roof into a design feature rather than a space waster.Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Oct. 2024
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California is moving to outlaw watering some grass that’s purely decorative Today, the lawn is among the biggest wasters of water in our urban environment — by some estimates accounting for more than half of the gallons used by city residents each year.Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
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“Saboteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saboteur. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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