thwarts
Example Sentences
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The long consignment to the wilderness thwarts “preservation, access, education, creative reuse, scholarship, etc., when most of the works are out of circulation and not benefiting any rights holders.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2025
Wendy thwarts that in accordance with the third trope: the hero returning to save someone weaker than she is.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2025
It brings to mind this concept of malicious compliance, where you’re technically doing what you’re supposed to, but in a way that actually thwarts the goals of the powers that be.
From Slate ● Aug. 15, 2025
And while most of us will want to tell ourselves that murderers are different from the rest of us, a woman like Montgomery — so personable, so ladylike — thwarts that disidentification.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
Sometimes she’d be going on very intensely then come to a sudden stop with something like: “What is it? What is it? What can it be that thwarts us?”
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
