is thwarting
- present progressive of thwart (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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But the county is thwarting the legal orders, according to Bert Deixler, former special counsel to the Civilian Oversight Commission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2025
And that is thwarting China’s longstanding efforts to promote female advancement in a country where, as Mao famously said, women hold up “half the sky.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
What may appear to be an evolutionary mismatch could, on closer reflection, be an indication that the society is thwarting someone’s personal goal.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 2, 2019
“No one is thwarting anyone from speaking,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 27, 2017
He turns from the lower nature that is thwarting him to the higher which is his innermost being, from the separated self that tortures him to the One Self that is the Heart of all.
From Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries by Besant, Annie Wood
