Verb (used with object) : Loyal troops foiled his attempt to overthrow the government.    From Dictionary.com. 

Former Lashkar trainees had also been prosecuted in foiled plots against New York, London and Australia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Before '08 Mumbai attacks, U.S. was warned key figure in plot had terror ties] Reference

Then there's the Fort Dix plan, "foiled" on May 7.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Autumn, Michael Chertoff, and your gut was wrong!] Reference

Chives and I thwarted him, or is 'foiled' a more dramatic word?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]

Everyone is speaking about the range to be honest and not this kind of foiled plot.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 30, 2007] Reference

Details on how East Lancashire derby-day pub fighting was 'foiled'.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Details on how East Lancashire derby-day pub fighting was 'foiled' (From Blackburn Citizen).    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The FBI foiled the plot and sent three men to prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plot] Reference

That plan was foiled because there was no emergency ladder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trapped Miners Kept Focus, Shared Tuna] Reference

Newspapers said that a dangerous plot had been narrowly foiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fritz Teufel, 'fun guerrilla' in German student movement of 1960s, dies at 67] Reference

Already the meds are being foiled by HIV's quick-change artistry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aids At 20] Reference

Steve Jobs foiled the rumormongers once more at last week's Macworld Expo.    From Wordnik.com.  [A (New) Chip on His SHoulder] Reference

Farther up Broadway, my fake ID foiled Viacom's Dantean system of security rings.    From Wordnik.com.  [A 'Genuine' Identity Crisis] Reference

There's been this troubling rash of arrests and foiled terror plots in recent weeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Nice Guy] Reference

But the White House later released a list of the scenarios that were supposedly foiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Subway Scare: When Is It Time to Be Worried?] Reference

Once the message is altered into a cacophonous babble, potential eavesdroppers are foiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [HOW THEY BEAT BIG BROTHER] Reference

But the plot was foiled when police found the victims and imprisoned Sheikh and his accomplices.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Murder Most Foul] Reference

On the sniper's list of foiled attempts to contact the authorities, one in particular stood out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Descent Into Evil] Reference

The plot was foiled when British raids turned up traces of ricin and the equipment used to make it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunting In The Barren Hills] Reference

The scheme was foiled when one of their co-conspirators blew himself up in his apartment in Manila.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Biggest Catch Yet] Reference

Ridge = May have foiled plot, but terror warn - ings were confusing, and spare us the political spin.    From Wordnik.com.  [CONVENTIONAL WISDOM: BIG ORANGE EDITION] Reference

They know about the countless other school shootings and foiled plots by troubled teens of recent years.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Innocence] Reference

In the aftermath of the foiled coup, long overdue economic transformation all of a sudden seems possible.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Big Bang' In Moscow] Reference

When it's clipped on to a growing chain of DNA, the next link doesn't fit and the whole production is foiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aids The Next Ten Years] Reference

Khalid Shaikh MohammedCHIEF OF OPSMaster planner of foiled 1995 attacks on U.S. airliners and 9-11 hijackings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy Of The Threat] Reference

The Quandts, who have avoided all publicity since a foiled 1970s attempt to kidnap the children, do not grant interviews.    From Wordnik.com.  [BEST OF THE BEST] Reference

The plot was first made public when it was foiled a month ago, and three of the group's alleged ringleaders are in custody.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Suspects Who Got Away] Reference

This foiled aspirant class of states is a polyglot group spanning the Caribbean, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pain in the Middle] Reference

The Drug Enforcement Administration has been foiled again in its pursuit of Khun Sa, alleged to be Asia's most notorious heroin kingpin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad Break] Reference

But curiously little has been heard about the allegedly foiled assassination plot in the five years since the U.S. military invaded Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saddam’s Files] Reference

But Afghan security forces say the incident was only one in a cluster of potential attacks foiled by them around Jan. 17-the day that U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plot Against Powell?] Reference