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been derailed
verb
To cause to come off the tracks.
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because a train ahead has been derailed.
Now, Hamzeh's alleged plans have been derailed.
"I've been derailed the last few days," Mr. Weiner said.
Mergers have previously been derailed on such grounds.
It's the first time a directive has been derailed.
Again, Lockett and St Kilda's season had been derailed.
Already, some of the Republicans' favorite ideas have been derailed.
Already the painful 17-year economic adjustment programme under IMF guidance has been derailed.
A train has been derailed after hitting cows that had strayed onto the line.
Two carriages have been derailed but are upright and there are no reports of any injuries.
Plans for an all-male Ghostbusters seem to have been derailed by Feig's much-hyped film.
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