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 many cases, the true saboteur isn’t poor planning or resistant employees.
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Mustafa Shreet, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Within the park, a saboteur shuts down the computer systems, and all hell breaks loose.
—David Denby, Vulture, 3 July 2025
Otherwise Israel could, in theory, only chip at Fordo’s periphery—by destroying power sources, collapsing entrances or sending saboteurs—while uranium continues to be enriched below.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 18 June 2025
These strands, which conduct information as pulses of light, have long been vulnerable to accidental damage by fishing trawlers and curious marine predators; more recently, there are fears that they’ve been targeted by saboteurs in the Baltic and the Taiwan Strait.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
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Mustafa Shreet, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Within the park, a saboteur shuts down the computer systems, and all hell breaks loose.
—David Denby, Vulture, 3 July 2025
Otherwise Israel could, in theory, only chip at Fordo’s periphery—by destroying power sources, collapsing entrances or sending saboteurs—while uranium continues to be enriched below.
—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 18 June 2025
These strands, which conduct information as pulses of light, have long been vulnerable to accidental damage by fishing trawlers and curious marine predators; more recently, there are fears that they’ve been targeted by saboteurs in the Baltic and the Taiwan Strait.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saboteur
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Australia joined that group last December, with the successful firing of a Tomahawk by the destroyer HMAS Brisbane off the US West Coast.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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Penta won the match with an avalanche destroyer, which has led to a storyline neck injury for Waller.—
Fernando Quiles Jr,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Bear West’s owners in the online appeal said their eatery had been repeatedly targeted by vandals in the days leading to the fire, stopping short of saying the early Thursday fire was deliberately set.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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Following a community vigil Sunday night, vandals struck.—
Lorraine Taylor,
FOXNews.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Bosa has already been a game-wrecker through two games thus far.—
James Brizuela,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Sep. 2025
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The Packers have the NFL’s youngest roster for a third straight year, a group of young, gifted players that might need a game-wrecker to get them over the hump.—
Rob Reischel,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Show me exactly how to reorganize my day to focus on growth drivers first, which of my tasks are secretly time-wasters dressed as important work, and how to say no to everything else.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 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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“Saboteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/saboteur. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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