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The car's tires were slashed by saboteurs.
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Events turn dangerous when the mission is disrupted by an unknown saboteur.
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
These subtle saboteurs cost you credibility and clients daily, but fixing them takes minutes rather than months.
—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
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
These subtle saboteurs cost you credibility and clients daily, but fixing them takes minutes rather than months.
—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
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“Saboteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saboteur. Accessed 7 May. 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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