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
These subtle saboteurs cost you credibility and clients daily, but fixing them takes minutes rather than months.
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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
But any assumption that a Trump-Putin deal will cause the Kremlin’s spies and saboteurs to step back is dangerously mistaken.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2025
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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
But any assumption that a Trump-Putin deal will cause the Kremlin’s spies and saboteurs to step back is dangerously mistaken.
—Andrei Soldatov, Foreign Affairs, 20 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saboteur
Noun
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The images come just weeks after the launch of the Cho Hyon, the lead ship in the destroyer class and largest surface combatant in the Korean People's Navy—constructed at the Nampho shipyard.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 May 2025
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Japanese forces lost four aircraft carriers, one cruiser and hundreds of aircraft, while the U.S. lost one carrier, one destroyer and dozens of aircraft.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
23 Apr. 2025
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The big picture: No one was hurt in the fire, which marked the third time since 2017 that vandals had targeted the New Mexico GOP offices.—
Russell Contreras,
Axios,
30 Mar. 2025
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That same year, a vandal at the Tate Modern in London deliberately defaced Rothko’s 1958 painting Black on Maroon (1958) with graffiti.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
1 May 2025
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Graham is that good, a game wrecker on the interior of the defensive line who offers a special blend of quickness, strength and intelligence.—
Sean Hammond,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Apr. 2025
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State police asked motorists to avoid the area as crews worked to use a wrecker to remove the tractor-trailer.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
23 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 27 May. 2025.
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