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
One common tactic saboteurs use is to leak bits and pieces of insider information to distract, stir backlash and ultimately hamper the changes.
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Troy Batterberry, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Such invective, coming from a saboteur with firsthand experience of institutional prudishness, put DeGenevieve in a paradoxical position: that of a professor who, because she was tenured, had the luxury of deriding her own ivory tower.
—Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
Before the computer age, saboteurs had trouble calibrating and controlling the effects of their actions.
—Thomas Rid, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2013
The deployment of roughly 10 NATO vessels under the Baltic Sentry mission is intended to deter acts of sabotage and enhance the likelihood of quickly intercepting any saboteurs, YLE reported.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
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Troy Batterberry, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
Such invective, coming from a saboteur with firsthand experience of institutional prudishness, put DeGenevieve in a paradoxical position: that of a professor who, because she was tenured, had the luxury of deriding her own ivory tower.
—Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
Before the computer age, saboteurs had trouble calibrating and controlling the effects of their actions.
—Thomas Rid, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2013
The deployment of roughly 10 NATO vessels under the Baltic Sentry mission is intended to deter acts of sabotage and enhance the likelihood of quickly intercepting any saboteurs, YLE reported.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saboteur
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Schuster said while changes would be needed to US law to enable the South Korean shipyard to begin fully constructing destroyers for the US Navy, the pact signed Monday could yield immediate benefits.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2025
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The carrier strike group led by the Carl Vinson consists of at least two other warships, the cruiser USS Princeton and the destroyer USS Sterett, and a carrier air wing with nine aircraft squadrons, according to a statement released by the U.S. Navy on March 28.—
Jason D. Greenblatt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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It was not immediately disclosed how detectives identified Cohen as the vandal.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
12 Apr. 2025
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During the riots, vandals breached the Supreme Court building, broke open a cabinet containing de Moraes’s robe, and carried the door into the crowd as a trophy.—
Jon Lee Anderson,
New Yorker,
7 Apr. 2025
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Robert has the ability to be a game wrecker in the outfield, on the bases, and in the batter's box.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Apr. 2025
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In our case, this was a potential vacation wrecker.—
Basem Wasef,
Robb Report,
1 Apr. 2025
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For example, default settings for focus time added blocking of sites in the categories Shopping, Tabloids, and Time wasters.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
13 Jan. 2025
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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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“Saboteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saboteur. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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