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Grimm and that executive finally located the system breakdown that was thwarting the process, and the cycle was over.

From Washington Post • Dec. 26, 2022

UAE and American interests have also diverged in Libya, where U.S. officials complained that the UAE was thwarting peace efforts.

From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2017

Bernstein and, to a lesser extent, Roy Jones Jr. of HBO, provided some excellent analysis, particularly in describing how Mayweather was thwarting Pacquiao’s strategy to overwhelm his opponent with torrents of punches.

From New York Times • May 3, 2015

In their appellate briefs, the banks asserted that The Fly, aided in part by new technologies, was thwarting its traditional business model and dissemination of its own reports.

From Forbes • Oct. 17, 2011

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