Example Sentences

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According to police, the suspect is believed to have sabotaged the payment system via a cyber attack, getting the system to authorise his transaction after entering only one cent as the charged amount.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

But there’s a catch: That’s only true as long as Musk is not determined to have sabotaged the financing or influenced the banks himself, Lipton said.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2022

But they have sabotaged themselves with two awful losses against DePaul and Saint Louis and by failing to beat any of the good teams they’ve faced since the VCU win.

From Washington Post • Mar. 6, 2016

The feared Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov reportedly is in conflict with the Federal Security Service; the “Chechen leadership and its security bodies” are said to have sabotaged the investigation of Nemtsov’s killing.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 20, 2015

He and Scotty had gone over the Sky Wagon from propeller hub to rudder, fearful that the unknown enemy might have sabotaged the plane.

From The Wailing Octopus by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)