as in thwarting
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as in deterrence
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as in frustrating
to prevent from achieving a goal
in popular fiction the hero will always foil the villain's plans
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Recent Examples of foiling
Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2025
Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 21 Nov. 2025
High-end jewelry brand Larkspur & Hawk is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a dazzling holiday campaign featuring the mother-daughter duo in over $18,500 worth of their jewels from the Palette collection, which is an ode to founder Emily Satloff's signature foiling.
—Michelle Lee, PEOPLE, 11 Nov. 2025
Available in a limited series and priced at 480 euros, the navy unisex design crafted from leather comes with clean lines, a distinctive statement tongue flap with the Puma logo and the Jil Sander one rendered in golden foiling on the side.
—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
Instead of doom-scrolling and checking e-mails, spend your device-free days exploring the Cayman reefs, wind foiling, or horseback riding.
—Ronny Maye, Essence, 7 Aug. 2025
Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 7 Jan. 2026
The outfit also offers more low-key options like paddleboarding and e-foiling, plus half- and full-day excursions to popular snorkeling spots and the conch mounds.
—Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 7 Jan. 2026
Saladita La Ventana specializes in everything from kiteboarding and wing foiling to parawinging and SUP.
—Jen Murphy, Outside, 7 Jan. 2026
Demonstrators formed a human barricade at the garage entrance and piled garbage bags to prevent vehicles from exiting, effectively foiling the apparent raid.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2025
The plotting becomes needlessly complicated at times, such as with Jack becoming a local hero after foiling a burglary, and later disgracing himself with a drunken tirade at a Christmas tree lighting ceremony, which leads to him being arrested and put on trial.
—Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 24 Nov. 2025
Aidan frames Dan for the theft, because estranged siblings are complicated, and so our heroes are forced to prove their innocence by foiling Aidan’s bid for power.
—David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 21 Nov. 2025
Navier has designed its foiling boats with the same triple foils and electric powerplants, but the Quanta-R involved a redesign of the weight-sensitive hull for balance and stability.
—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2025
Linking hubs such as Oakland, Richmond, Oyster Point, and Redwood City with high-speed foiling ferries would put hundreds of thousands more workers within a 45-minute commute of San Francisco’s job centers, expanding housing supply and cutting emissions from car commutes across the Bay.
—Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
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Snorkeling, fishing, e-foiling, jetskiing, and stand-up paddleboarding are also available.
—Noun
It will be equipped with Enata’s proprietary foiling system—the same one that appeared on 32-foot predecessor Spirit, but with a few refinements.
—Verb
The Irvine Police Department (IPD) released footage showing what appears to be heavily armed officers foiling the brazen burglary as two suspects, dressed in black hoodies and face masks, attempted to flee with an armful of designer items.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for foiling
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Mack and the Chargers’ defense pressured quarterbacks Jalen Hurts of the Eagles and Patrick Mahomes of the Chiefs, frustrating them and keeping them out of their comfort zones.—
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The fact no one has picked up this exceptional docu from director David Kittredge is baffling, leading me to think somehow it is cursed, much the same way the original Exorcist was thought to be while in production.—
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There are several baffling visual motifs, like Jonah’s insistence on wearing the tightest possible shirt in which to teach high-school English or Miller’s ever-flexing jaw muscle.—
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Strategically speaking, this new system will align with Australia’s growing focus on maritime security and deterrence.—
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But nearly 60,000 other voters marked for deterrence in the area around I-95 did not show up to the polls — a drop of six percentage points among those same voters compared to 2012, according to a Herald analysis.—
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Justin was arguably United’s man of the match, personally thwarting Florian Wirtz with two last-gasp blocks in the first half as a wing-back, before proving equally dependable at centre-back in the latter stages.—
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Askarov finished with 20 saves for the Sharks, including thwarting Quinn Hughes on an overtime breakaway.—
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By partly neutralizing criticism that its leaders are elitist or antidemocratic, the right has been able to focus on issues that play to its strengths.—
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Baking Soda As an alkaline compound, baking soda is skilled at neutralizing odors.—
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Engineers also need to understand that environmental responsibility is just as important as neutralization.—
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The state controlled all aspects of people’s public and private lives leading to the near complete neutralization of the individual.—
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This left the country without a regular budget for next year and is hampering plans for long-overdue structural reforms and decisions on use of EU support funds.—
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Decades-old grids in the US are hampering new energy rollouts, and Spain’s huge blackout in April was blamed on an aged system unable to cope with power swings.—
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Reaching the summit requires a strenuous 15-mile hike round-trip, with water crossings, loose rocks, and a steep climb at altitude.—
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And Miller expects regular updates on detention capacity, deportation flights, and border crossings.—
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“Foiling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foiling. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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