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Win or lose, streaming’s 900-pound gorilla will have thwarted or at least impeded a carefully laid attack by interloper David Ellison and his billionaire father, Larry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

"Our people, just as they have thwarted all plans for displacement and an alternative homeland over the decades, will also thwart such projects," he added.

From BBC • Jan. 26, 2025

Russian officials claimed to have thwarted the aerial assaults.

From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2023

While the 74-year-old Osbourne’s health issues have thwarted some recent tour plans, the onetime Black Sabbath frontman said he would return if his condition improved.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2023

And yet, what could have thwarted him when Marion was far away in the forest, and he lay quiet and undisturbed on his blankets, in full possession of his faculties?

From The Heart of Thunder Mountain by Fischer, Anton Otto