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
As the sun and Chiron harmonize, face your inner saboteur.
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USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2025
One common tactic saboteurs use is to leak bits and pieces of insider information to distract, stir backlash and ultimately hamper the changes.
—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
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USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2025
One common tactic saboteurs use is to leak bits and pieces of insider information to distract, stir backlash and ultimately hamper the changes.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saboteur
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Such losses would represent a significant proportion of the 11 carriers and approximately 80 cruisers and destroyers currently in service around the world.—
ANDREW S. LIM,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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Japan lost four aircraft carriers, one cruiser, and hundreds of aircraft, while the U.S. lost one carrier, one destroyer and 144 aircraft during the battle.—
Lucia I Suarez Sang,
CBS News,
21 Apr. 2025
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Climate change vandals spray-painted a Tesla car dealership in Manhattan on Tuesday to protest Elon Musk’s work with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), but as police arrived, the activists could be seen cleaning off some of the vulgar writing.—
Michael Dorgan,
FOXNews.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Law enforcement is asking those who might know the identity of the vandals to step forward.—
Ashleigh Fields,
The Hill,
28 Mar. 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 2 May. 2025.
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