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
Downing Sugary Beverages All Day Your morning coffee isn’t the only blood sugar saboteur—sipping on sodas, chocolate milk, and fruit juices throughout the day can also spike your glucose.
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Jillian Kubala, Health, 26 May 2025
Simon explored tensions between disbelief and faith, envisioned the Lord as both guardian and saboteur, and seldom arrived at definitive answers to his probing thoughts.
—Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 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
The intelligence service also warned that saboteurs may impersonate employees of groups like the Red Cross or United Nations.
—Eve Sampson, New York Times, 16 May 2025
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Jillian Kubala, Health, 26 May 2025
Simon explored tensions between disbelief and faith, envisioned the Lord as both guardian and saboteur, and seldom arrived at definitive answers to his probing thoughts.
—Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 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
The intelligence service also warned that saboteurs may impersonate employees of groups like the Red Cross or United Nations.
—Eve Sampson, New York Times, 16 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for saboteur
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Tensions further escalated after two Chinese vessels, a navy destroyer and a coast guard craft, collided near the reef last month, heavily damaging the latter, while chasing a Philippine coast guard cutter.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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In contrast, the YJ-20 bears external similarities to a ballistic missile, with a design reminiscent of a weapon previously seen launched from a Type 055 destroyer in 2022, sometimes referred to as the YJ-21.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Sep. 2025
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Early said that the victim took a picture of the alleged vandal, an act that appears to have escalated the confrontation.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
28 Aug. 2025
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Small groups blocked roads while one contingent of vandals roughed up the lobby of traditionally anti-Kirchner TV station TN (owned by Grupo Clarín, one of Cristina’s historical antagonists).—
Agustino Fontevecchia,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 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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After a promising rookie campaign, Carter established himself as a true game-wrecker last season.—
Mike Jones,
New York Times,
19 Aug. 2025
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Who is a time waster and who is your next biggest client?—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
30 May 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 11 Sep. 2025.
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