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The car's tires were slashed by saboteurs.
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Such invective, coming from a saboteur with firsthand experience of institutional prudishness, put DeGenevieve in a paradoxical position: that of a professor who, because she was tenured, had the luxury of deriding her own ivory tower.
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Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
Before the computer age, saboteurs had trouble calibrating and controlling the effects of their actions.
—Thomas Rid, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2013
The deployment of roughly 10 NATO vessels under the Baltic Sentry mission is intended to deter acts of sabotage and enhance the likelihood of quickly intercepting any saboteurs, YLE reported.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
Allied officials say some of the ailing ships are doubling as low-tech saboteur vessels.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2025
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Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2025
Before the computer age, saboteurs had trouble calibrating and controlling the effects of their actions.
—Thomas Rid, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2013
The deployment of roughly 10 NATO vessels under the Baltic Sentry mission is intended to deter acts of sabotage and enhance the likelihood of quickly intercepting any saboteurs, YLE reported.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 14 Jan. 2025
Allied officials say some of the ailing ships are doubling as low-tech saboteur vessels.
—David Brennan, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2025
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“Saboteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saboteur. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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saboteur
noun
sab·o·teur
ˌsab-ə-ˈtər 
-ˈt(y)u̇(ə)r
: a person who performs sabotage
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