Synonyms for thwarting
thwart·ing

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1. frustration, thwarting, foilingadjective

   an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts

   Synonyms:
   frustration, defeat, foiling

   Antonyms:
   permissive

2. frustrating, frustrative, thwartingadjective

   preventing realization or attainment of a desire

   Synonyms:
   frustrative, frustrating

   Antonyms:
   permissive

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1. List of paraphrases for "thwarting":

   aborting, foiling

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How to use thwarting in a sentence?

1. Benjamin Netanyahu:

   The campaign that we oversee plays out daily, in complex arenas, under myriad threats that recur without respite. This requires us to be constantly prepared to fight in secret, anytime and anywhere necessary. The service is charged with this effort and there is no option, but to win this war every day, we, the personnel of the ISA, have a very significant responsibility in defending the State of Israel and its inhabitants, in thwarting and blocking terrorist threats and in upholding democracy. We will continue to do this our way – with courage, wisdom, determination, innovation, dedication, and relevancy.

2. Grant Rumley:

   From Abbas's standpoint, this is his way of both thwarting his rivals in Hamas and securing his Fatah party's hold on the Palestinian Authority once he is gone.

3. Joe Biden:

   They look at the mob that stormed the United States Capitol on January 6 brutally attacking law enforcement, not as insurrectionists who placed a dagger at the throat of our democracy, but they look at it( them) as patriots, they see their MAGA failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election as preparation for the 2022 and 2024 elections. This time they are determined to succeed in thwarting the will of the people.

4. Benjamin Netanyahu:

   We have operated with impressive success in thwarting Iran from establishing a military foothold in Syria, in the framework of which the military has struck hundreds of times against Iranian and Hezbollah targets, in the last 36 hours alone, the air force struck storage facilities with Iranian weapons at the Damascus International Airport. The bulk of recent attacks show how we are more committed than ever to act against Iran in Syria, as we promised.

5. Grant Rumley:

   It's a blatant power grab at a time when he knows he can get away with it, from Abbas's standpoint, this is his way of both thwarting his rivals in Hamas and securing his Fatah party's hold on the Palestinian Authority once he is gone.