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'foiled' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that means to have had a plan or attempt ruined or prevented from succeeding. Example sentence: My attempt to bake a cake was foiled when I realized that I had forgotten to buy eggs.
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Another attempt to play Slimani in behind the German back four is foiled, when the latest through ball is blocked.
First, Slimani attempts to latch on to yet another long ball in over the Germany defence, only to be foiled once again by Neuer rushing out of his penalty area.
A Canadian man and an American woman have been charged in connection with a foiled plot to carry out a mass shooting attack at a shopping mall on Valentine's Day in Halifax, Nova Scotia, police said on Saturday.
AQAP has been blamed for the foiled Christmas Day 2009 effort to bomb an airliner over Detroit and for explosives-laden parcels that were intercepted the following year aboard cargo flights.
(Extreme Basque nationalists didn't take kindly to its arrival: the week before it opened, ETA killed a police officer in a foiled attempt to bomb the museum).
If so, that suggests many leads that may now be traced, and many plots potentially foiled, thanks to the raid.
State television's decision to report a foiled assassination plot against him in the week of the election provoked cynical laughter.
Western diplomats claim 90% of attempted bombings are now being foiled, mainly thanks to tip-offs from local people.
AS ICONS go, the New Scotland Yard building is unimpressive a 1960s office block recognisable only by the revolving name plate under which crime reporters stand to dish out the day's diet of murder, corruption and foiled terrorism.
Terrorist attacks in Britain, whether successful or foiled, "are not simply random plots by disparate and fragmented groups", he insisted.
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Only a strong turnout by Scottish pensioners the only age-group thought likely to have voted mainly for the union foiled them.
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