saboteur

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. 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 See all Example Sentences for saboteur 
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Noun
  • The destroyer was assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln.
    Justin Gest, Newsweek, 20 Jan. 2025
  • With Musk about to become a key advisor to Donald Trump’s White House and meddling in European politics, many now see the X and Tesla owner as someone who embodies either the destroyer or the savior of the Western world.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • With thieves after potential copper used in charging equipment, ChargePoint started to look into a way to prevent would-be vandals from knocking more public charging stations offline.
    Sasha Lekach, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • The attack comes as police search for three suspects over an arson attack on the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on Friday and follows other antisemitic attacks by vandals in Sydney.
    Hilary Whiteman, CNN, 10 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • After years of delay, wreckers get ready to raze enormous ex-hotel in this central CT town After years of delay, wreckers get ready to raze enormous ex-hotel in this central CT town CT brewery closes a popular shoreline pub and restaurant location.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 20 Jan. 2025
  • In Central Arkansas, East End Towing, located on Ironton Road in Little Rock, stayed busy through the night with 12 wreckers going around-the-clock, according to dispatcher Scott Bates, with over 200 calls for service between 7 a.m. and noon on Friday alone.
    Dale Ellis, arkansasonline.com, 10 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • For example, default settings for focus time added blocking of sites in the categories Shopping, Tabloids, and Time wasters.
    PCMAG, PCMAG, 13 Jan. 2025
  • 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 Feb. 2025.

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