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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

Zeisler, a co-founder of Bitch magazine, has worried for two decades that popular culture is thwarting, trashing or ignoring feminism.

From Washington Post • May 5, 2016

If any other life did but seem appointed for me, but one cannot tell what is thwarting providential leading, and if this be as good a man as—What would Ethel say?

From The Daisy chain, or Aspirations by Yonge, Charlotte Mary