I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
try
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When the war was lost, even the hotheads did not try to sabotage the peace.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her father sabotaged her acting ambitions by refusing to let her go to drama school.
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Mitchell accused the party of trying to sabotage his campaign.
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Security lighting was sabotaged before the theft took place.
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The attack is being seen as a deliberate attempt to sabotage the peace talks.
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The plane's landing gear had been sabotaged.
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The railway line had been sabotaged by enemy commandos.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because it can not cope with so many messages, its only recourse is to sabotage the airwaves themselves.
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Executives said there can be no compensation because the well was sabotaged, something community leaders reluctantly acknowledged.
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Gesner was obviously determined to sabotage the whole Season.
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Some smashing clips were sabotaged by the usual sloppy Watchmaker research.
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The first attempt, in 1960, was sabotaged by the wife-stabbing.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
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The amnesty did not include those accused of offences relating to drugs, murder, economic sabotage or armed robbery.
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The judge described their crimes as a campaign of economic sabotage .
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You conducted a campaign of economic sabotage .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Armed soldiers patrol the airbase to guard against sabotage .
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The rebels stopped their sabotage of the power distribution network.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ditto with the sabotage of an Amtrak train near Phoenix six months later.
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Experts believed the crash to be due to pilot error, and sabotage was virtually ruled out of the investigation.
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I do not believe his sabotage notion for one moment.
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If there is no scientific mystery, then sabotage is the only explanation.
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The amnesty did not include those accused of offences relating to drugs, murder, economic sabotage or armed robbery.
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Their acts of blockade and sabotage had been only sporadic: their chief action was simply to be there.
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They wore army fatigues and played brooding games of gin rummy, listening to dull rumbles from the sabotage site.
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What if Everett's putative murderer had been the intended victim of sabotage rather than its practitioner?