saboteur

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I suspect saboteurs would play a substantial role in interstellar warfare for that reason.

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Quick take

someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks

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noun

someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks

noun

a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for saboteur.

noun

someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks

noun

a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader

Example sentences

I suspect saboteurs would play a substantial role in interstellar warfare for that reason.

Maybe with long articles where it's repeated ad nauseam that the poisoner and saboteur was not herself, was stressed, was depressed and had headaches.

Reviewing Snowden's email records seems like a reasonable means for the FBI to determine if they are dealing with a whistleblower or a saboteur.

But what I meant to suggest that by running, he is proving himself as a saboteur or spy to people who agree with many media streams and is leaving many things up to justifiable question.

What better way to cause chaos among the German bureaucracy than to spread paranoia that anyone engaged in normal bureaucratic dithering, patriotic speechifying or bad handwriting might actually be a saboteur?

The dialogic image has become the weaponisation of ridicule; the designer has become a postfordist saboteur of the industrial process, and the ever-present spectre of sabotage as the unspoken clot of class-war clogs another artery of capital.