sabotaging

present participle of sabotage

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sabotaging
Verb
  • There had already been one major let-off with Alisson thwarting Yilmaz, who had got in behind the makeshift right-back too easily.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • House Republican leaders have been thwarting efforts to get that vote.
    David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 26 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Since then, the Internet has gone about its immemorial business of destroying all incumbent forms of media; not content with vampirizing print, the digital space began sucking the life from pay-TV a dozen years ago.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Critics say returning the company without meaningful payment undercuts accountability and the compensatory purpose of the judgments; others note trustees and Judge Lopez have to avoid value-destroying, prolonged processes.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • China's official gauge for manufacturing activity showed a smaller-than-expected contraction in September as Beijing intensified its efforts aimed at curbing industrial overcapacity amid sluggish domestic demand and global trade disruptions.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Some developers will even build their own parallel roads, curbing costs for ITD, Wald said.
    Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Adam Berry/Getty Images What To Know Phoenix police said in a release to media that a 19-year-old was detained after wrecking a memorial for Kirk at the office of Turning Point USA, the conservative campus group that Kirk co-founded.
    Robert Birsel, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Despite the mixed reception, the money counter was an earnest attempt to keep the show running on schedule, preventing one or two self-indulgent speakers from wrecking the running time.
    Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The leather straps for restraining limbs are still there on opposite ends underneath stacks of paper.
    Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Darcy said that when a person is resisting officers, their knowledge of the person having pre-existing medical conditions is not enough to prevent them from restraining someone combative.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Doing so could compromise the slight taper at the hem, ruining the silhouette.
    Shea Simmons, PEOPLE, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Car designers love them for not ruining the lines of the door with the necessities of real life, but is the benefit from drag reduction worth the safety risk?
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The club does know that goaltending remains an issue, moving McDavid and Draisaitl to the same line weakens centre on the second and third lines and that Savoie is a better fit for the Draisaitl (second line) than a checking unit.
    Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The burden for checking this abuse of power has now shifted to the states and to the people themselves.
    Trena Turner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Oh, and stopping the Soviets from annihilating the world.
    Vulture Editors, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
  • As a result, Israel preserved its existence without annihilating vast opposition forces.
    ANDRIY ZAGORODNYUK, Foreign Affairs, 23 Sep. 2025
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“Sabotaging.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sabotaging. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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