as in disruption
an act or instance of the order of things being disturbed
the slightest dislocation in her daily routine bothered the elderly woman
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Recent Examples of dislocation
Second, this year will also bring rising dislocation to the AI space, according to the analyst.
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Pia Singh, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2026
His wrist was still swollen from early in-season surgery to repair a dislocation that happened against the San Francisco 49ers in Week 4.
—Juston Lewis, Florida Times-Union, 17 Jan. 2026
Iran temporarily closed its airspace around Tehran for several hours amid rising tensions with the US and nationwide protests in the country, as geopolitical dislocations risk disrupting main flight paths.
—Allyson Versprille, Bloomberg, 14 Jan. 2026
There are shades of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea here, the supreme dislocation of being a person in a world where others are so utterly unknowable.
—Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
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Pia Singh, CNBC, 20 Jan. 2026
His wrist was still swollen from early in-season surgery to repair a dislocation that happened against the San Francisco 49ers in Week 4.
—Juston Lewis, Florida Times-Union, 17 Jan. 2026
Iran temporarily closed its airspace around Tehran for several hours amid rising tensions with the US and nationwide protests in the country, as geopolitical dislocations risk disrupting main flight paths.
—Allyson Versprille, Bloomberg, 14 Jan. 2026
There are shades of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea here, the supreme dislocation of being a person in a world where others are so utterly unknowable.
—Literary Hub, 14 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dislocation
Noun
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In 2025, California’s job market lost jobs for the first time in a calendar year since 2020, a period that was marred by massive disruptions arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.—
George Avalos,
Mercury News,
7 Feb. 2026
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But a combination of manufacturing disruptions during the pandemic at the sterile fly facility in Panama and changing grazing patterns are thought to have contributed to the new outbreak.—
Bloomberg Wire,
Dallas Morning News,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The incident that led to the murder charge occurred in May 2015, when Proctor and another LAPD officer, Jonathan Kawahara, responded to calls about Glenn and his dog causing a disturbance in Venice Beach.—
Richard Winton,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Both the Emmy-winning actress and her husband have been arrested in the past on domestic-disturbance charges.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
9 Feb. 2026
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“Dislocation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dislocation. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.
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