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
In addition to the physical access and time necessary to pull off that hack, however, a license plate saboteur would also need to overcome a feature of Reviver's plates that sends a notification to the owner when it's detached from a vehicle.
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Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2024
The saboteurs' goal was to imply that No Labels was a right-wing shadow effort.
—Kelsey Walsh, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2024
The United States also revealed Russian plans to send saboteurs into eastern Ukraine to stage an incident that could provide Putin with a pretext for an invasion.
—Douglas London, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2022
Yet another plot wrinkle is the role the rebellion — and one saboteur within the rebellion — might have in affecting both the emperor’s business on Arrakis and the Sisterhood’s sphere of influence.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
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Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2024
The saboteurs' goal was to imply that No Labels was a right-wing shadow effort.
—Kelsey Walsh, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2024
The United States also revealed Russian plans to send saboteurs into eastern Ukraine to stage an incident that could provide Putin with a pretext for an invasion.
—Douglas London, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2022
Yet another plot wrinkle is the role the rebellion — and one saboteur within the rebellion — might have in affecting both the emperor’s business on Arrakis and the Sisterhood’s sphere of influence.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saboteur
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America and the world need Trump to be a disrupter and reformer, not merely a destroyer.Charles A. Kupchan, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
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Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force JS Kaga: Kure, Japan The Kaga, which is a helicopter destroyer undergoing conversion into the country's first aircraft carrier since World War II, remained pierside at Kure naval base in Hiroshima prefecture, according to a photo shared by a ship spotter on Monday.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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In the 1990s, a vandal chopped off the Ranch Club stallion’s, um, manhood.Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 2 Jan. 2025
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All eyes are on Bend, Oregon, where a mysterious vandal (or group of vandals) has been sticking large, plastic googly eyes on public art sculptures around the city.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Dec. 2024
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At about ten o’clock that night, the bridge finally fell into the brook, but the truck did not follow, and was hauled to safety by a wrecker.Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 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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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 Jan. 2025.
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