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scuttle

verb as in destroy

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verb as in hurry

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Andy will not, for instance, hold the way open for his human allies fleeing a horde of scuttling terrors.

But the half-dozen top DNC officers appear eager to scuttle the arms-embargo resolution as fast as possible without having to vote on it themselves.

Two of the wind projects were scuttled by developers, while three others got built.

For prosecutors who had tried to scuttle a winnable case against a serial killer, the notoriety was unkind.

“Nothing in this partisan, previously scuttled document changes that,” Warner said in a statement on Wednesday.

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