thwart: (verb)  \ ˈthwȯrt \

Definition: to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of

-“People are beginning to exercise a bit more reserved online or are otherwise engaging in subversive tactics to thwart data miners.”

When I was reading the finals article , I stumble on the word thwart but never heard of the word before. So I used context clues and the word that pop up was eliminate or to target. After using context clues, I went online to search up the definition and got a clear understanding of the word thwart. The way I understood thwart was that it meant to counter the opposing  side.