How to Use ruction in a Sentence
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What about a financial ruction of some sort, such as a stock-market crash?
—Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2017
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One of her main concerns was that a financial ruction could impede, if not destroy, growth.
—Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
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But this year’s ructions in global markets started with a steep climb in bond yields in part due to rising inflation.
—Richard Barley, WSJ, 11 July 2018
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The balance of power between aerospace firms and their suppliers is causing ructions.
—The Economist, 9 Sep. 2017
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However, the threat of wholesale changes caused ructions throughout the sport before the decision was announced.
—Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 15 May 2018
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At some point, ructions in financial markets would force a change—a weak pound makes imports more expensive, trimming living standards.
—The Economist, 30 Oct. 2019
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Yet for all the ructions, the visible impact on America’s hard economic data has so far been relatively small.
—The Economist, 13 June 2019
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Russia and Brazil strengthened as well, after a period of political ructions and low commodity prices.
—The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
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But the evidence from Asia in recent days suggests that rising trade tensions and European market ructions haven’t yet turned slowing growth into a full-on rout.
—Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 8 June 2018
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With Hollywood in a continual state of technological, corporate and cultural ruction, will there still be enough room to bring the crazy?
—Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 25 July 2019
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Alvaro Morata has reportedly caused slight ructions in the Chelsea dressing room over his whinging personality.
—SI.com, 1 Mar. 2018
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The debate has caused ructions in the largely pro-Europe Labour Party, the largest opposition group in Parliament.
—Jill Lawless, Orange County Register, 8 Feb. 2017
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In this novel, Zebra, an Iranian exile, uses literature to grapple with the historical ructions that define her life.
—Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2018
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Before the latest political ructions, Brazil had been a stand-out performer in emerging markets since January 2016.
—Srinivasan Sivabalan, Bloomberg.com, 19 May 2017
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Such a desire could cause ructions between the two parties, and manager Antonio Conte will be hopeful that all can come to some form of arrangement to keep a key player out of the clutches of a title rival.
—SI.com, 31 Oct. 2017
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Russian fans, indirectly representing a state which would host the world's celebration of the sport two years following, facing off with those from England in one of the fiercest ructions for nearly 20 years.
—SI.com, 27 Mar. 2018
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Mourinho, however, is resisting the France international's plea to switch his defensive duties to a more attack-minded role in the team, and the issue is believed to have caused slight ructions in the dressing room between the pair.
—SI.com, 15 Feb. 2018
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But Gerwig resists that temptation by keeping her eye firmly on the economics to which Alcott herself was all too keenly aware, and allowing her characters to experience joy even within their severest ructions and reversals.
—Ann Hornaday, Houston Chronicle, 20 Dec. 2019
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Dudamel’s reluctance to engage in the political ructions of his native country was a rare point of vulnerability until last year, when his criticism of President Maduro led to the cancellation of two tours with the Bolivár orchestra.
—Fergus McIntosh, The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2018
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