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Treasury yields snapped higher Tuesday, breaking a six-week trading range and thwarting the bond market’s traditional role as a haven in times of stock market volatility.

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

Regional power Nigeria assisted in thwarting the mutiny, saying its fighter jets had helped "dislodge the coup plotters from the National TV and a military camp" following a request from Benin's government.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

He renounced his British passport and became an American citizen in 2019, and became fixated on thwarting China’s advancements in semiconductors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

Those experiments showed they could turn unresponsive cancers into responsive ones, thwarting tumor growth.

From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2025

Now was the time, they all knew, if there ever was to be a time, when he ought to have it out with his friend and king—yet Guenever was thwarting him.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White