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The car's tires were slashed by saboteurs.
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These subtle saboteurs cost you credibility and clients daily, but fixing them takes minutes rather than months.
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Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Both qualities suggest he’ll be easily manipulated by the senior senator from his home state, who ultimately becomes Smith’s saboteur and nemesis when the scales fall from the younger man’s eyes.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
Our own inner saboteurs, as RuPaul would say, are really the villain of the story.
—Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2025
But any assumption that a Trump-Putin deal will cause the Kremlin’s spies and saboteurs to step back is dangerously mistaken.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2025
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Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Both qualities suggest he’ll be easily manipulated by the senior senator from his home state, who ultimately becomes Smith’s saboteur and nemesis when the scales fall from the younger man’s eyes.
—Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025
Our own inner saboteurs, as RuPaul would say, are really the villain of the story.
—Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 24 Jan. 2025
But any assumption that a Trump-Putin deal will cause the Kremlin’s spies and saboteurs to step back is dangerously mistaken.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Saboteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saboteur. Accessed 26 Apr. 2025.
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saboteur
noun
sab·o·teur
ˌsab-ə-ˈtər 
-ˈt(y)u̇(ə)r
: a person who performs sabotage
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