scuttling

Know how the sentinels would sometimes look at each other and make scuttling noises, then shovel off somewhere?

Members of Congress are scuttling around like weasels, claiming they can’t disclose what’s in this far-reaching, 12-nation trade treaty.

The scuttling of technology, even when it could greatly aid and enable a better experience, can be seen in sports as well.

When every other major company was scuttling their DEI initiatives Costco doubled down.

Are we actually scuttling a productive resource so that other interests can improve their profit margin?

I would guess that scuttling a ship so that it descends into a deep sea trench would have minimal environmental impact.

Leaving Columbia on orbit awaiting some form of repair or scuttling.

The broad strokes of the design have been in place since 2005 (with the admittedly unfortunate scuttling of plans for the base and antenna array).

There is some debate over whether the Bismarck was sunk by torpedoes at all, or if it was sunk by scuttling charges installed by the crew.

Two, congress turned the space program into a pork program for influential districts, constantly moving goal-posts and creating and then scuttling programs to keep the pork flowing.

Although the end goal is to quiet your mind and gain more control over it, to think of one thing instead of a bunch of crabs on a string scuttling everywhere.

Loading them on ships and scuttling them out in the ocean is quick, the alternative is having them all sitting around in warehouses for years while they're slowly decommissioned, and hoping an accident or terrorist doesn't bathe half the country in mustard gas.

One poke too hard and it's "whatever" and them scuttling off.

At times it seemed they were scuttling others attempts to build a variant compiler, and even cannabalizing the annotation-based addon market like when they duplicated the Groovy++ static compilation "speed booster".

I was making fun of that bubble." Whether or not her explanation for the off-color is truly genuine is up for debate, but scuttling somebody's life and career for something that only might have been a racist remark doesn't seem all that fair to me and (it would appear) a significant fraction of commenters here.

According to reports, this terminology is still being used today: Under the sub-heading "Rude language a la British", she wrote that "[Prince Andrew] railed at British anti-corruption investigators, who had had the 'idiocy' of almost scuttling the Al-Yamama deal with Saudi Arabia".

Scuttling a ship doesn't get you the millions of dollars that you get from selling it to a scrapyard.