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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Below, courtesy of descriptions from Netflix, meet each of the 12 contestants — and feel free to speculate wildly about who is the saboteur (and who might end up breaking hearts on Perfect Match).
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Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 5 June 2024
Their sentencing is the latest development in energy attacks across the U.S. by saboteurs looking to blow up or cripple power grids.
—Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024
If there were any doubts that the Olympics would be a target, they were dispelled before dawn on Friday, when saboteurs carried out attacks on high-speed train lines in France.
—Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
In 1942, little more than half a year after the United States entered the war in Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt hastily convened a military commission to try a handful of Nazi saboteurs who had landed on domestic shores.
—Lawrence Douglas, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2017
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Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 5 June 2024
Their sentencing is the latest development in energy attacks across the U.S. by saboteurs looking to blow up or cripple power grids.
—Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 27 July 2024
If there were any doubts that the Olympics would be a target, they were dispelled before dawn on Friday, when saboteurs carried out attacks on high-speed train lines in France.
—Lee Hockstader, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
In 1942, little more than half a year after the United States entered the war in Europe, President Franklin D. Roosevelt hastily convened a military commission to try a handful of Nazi saboteurs who had landed on domestic shores.
—Lawrence Douglas, Foreign Affairs, 17 June 2017
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