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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
derail .
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Examples
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Is it just a matter of time before the Duggar train derails in front of the cameras?
Kate Gosselin on 'Today': 'My actions are appropriate' | EW.com 2009
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Lilian – no you’re right – it does come from Nights at the Circus, if you mean the bit where the train derails and they all wander off into the Siberian wilds and the women come across the prison … It is a wonderfully powerful passage in an amazing novel.
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Obviously, it's difficult to render colloquial reportage in a form that is both readable and faithful to the original, but too often a clunky or over-literal phrase derails the narrative.
Beauty and the Inferno by Roberto Saviano – Review Duncan Campbell 2010
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In today's pictures, veterans celebrate Victory Day in Belarus, a train derails in India, garbage piles up in Italy, and more.
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That could be a huge and costly distraction that "derails efforts to go public down the road," he says.
Crowd-Funding Brings Unease Angus Loten 2011
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First off, Olby Sucks derails the topic, then he points at possibility and conjecture as certifiable “DO NOT WANT”.
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The nature of the market and nonexistent switching costs derails any predatory pricing claim.
David Balto: Google Is No Microsoft David Balto 2011
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As Detective Kevin Ryan (Seamus Dever) prepares to tie the knot with his fiancee Jennie (Dever's real-life bride, Juliana) on Monday's episode (10/9c, ABC), the death of a notorious Lothario derails the wedding planning.
Castle: Will Ryan's Wedding Inspire a Castle-Beckett Coupling? 2012
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The nature of the market and nonexistent switching costs derails any predatory pricing claim.
David Balto: Google Is No Microsoft David Balto 2011
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The nature of the market and nonexistent switching costs derails any predatory pricing claim.
David Balto: Google Is No Microsoft David Balto 2011
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