1
as in to break
to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly
an earthquake that had disrupted the elevated highway in several places
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as in to disturb
to undo the proper order or arrangement of
the arrival of a baby in the household would totally disrupt their established routine
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Recent Examples of disrupt
For each of these high-profile weekends, police and security officials are on alert for any sort of counterprotest or attempts to disrupt the proceedings.
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Ashraf Khalil, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
While transiting through your relationship sector, red-hot Mars will meet with your modern ruler, Uranus, triggering unexpected chaos that disrupts your emotions and comfort zone.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 6 June 2025
What Could Move The Market? Several factors could disrupt the current market calm:
European Tariff Deadline: President Trump has postponed the implementation of a 50% tariff on European Union goods to July 9, 2025.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
An extended pause in scheduling student visas could lead to delays that may disrupt college, boarding-school or exchange students’ plans to enroll in summer and fall terms.
—Annie Ma, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025
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Ashraf Khalil, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2025
While transiting through your relationship sector, red-hot Mars will meet with your modern ruler, Uranus, triggering unexpected chaos that disrupts your emotions and comfort zone.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 6 June 2025
What Could Move The Market? Several factors could disrupt the current market calm:
European Tariff Deadline: President Trump has postponed the implementation of a 50% tariff on European Union goods to July 9, 2025.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
An extended pause in scheduling student visas could lead to delays that may disrupt college, boarding-school or exchange students’ plans to enroll in summer and fall terms.
—Annie Ma, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disrupt
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Officials there determined the residents had not intended to break the law and no crime was committed.—
Mark Thiessen,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2025
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In the second set, Alcaraz broke to get within 4-5 when Sinner sailed a forehand long.—
Adam Zagoria,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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Create Do-Not-Disturb Prompts To Discourage Interruptions Experiment with reducing your availability to interruptions by following specific practices that signal to others you shouldn’t be disturbed.—
Caroline Ceniza-Levine,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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Perhaps your time off request isn’t approved, or your vacation plans have been disturbed by your colleagues.—
Liz Simmons,
StyleCaster,
27 May 2025
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His left orbital bone and right cheekbone were also fractured, among other injuries.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
31 May 2025
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Meanwhile, the civil-rights movement split the Democratic coalition—its Southern wing peeled off, never to return—and Vietnam fractured the liberals.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
26 May 2025
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Elections and Certifications Don’t confuse a benefit or B corporation with a B Corp.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
6 June 2025
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The measures are set to take effect on Monday and have left many Haitians confused.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
6 June 2025
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Aid distributed inside Israeli military zones Gaza’s roughly 2 million Palestinians are almost completely reliant on international aid because nearly all food production capabilities have been destroyed.—
Wafaa Shurafa,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2025
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If trillion-dollar bonds are required to contest trillion-dollar damages our government is causing, that destroys the protections our Constitution provides its citizens against the rule of tyrants.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 June 2025
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The team then trained three seals–Nick, Luca, and Miro–to shuffle into place in front of a large screen and showed them the simulations.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
29 May 2025
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When one of the figures is placed at the top of a ramp, the force of gravity causes the toy to walk down to the bottom by shuffling its legs back and forth.—
Ben Coxworth,
New Atlas,
23 May 2025
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Here are recommendations for maintaining safety during a thunderstorm: To reduce the chance of being struck by lightning, when venturing outside, have a plan to get to a safer area.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
9 June 2025
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Yerevan has since sought to diversify its defense sources, reducing arms imports from Russia to as low as 10 percent by 2024.—
Paul Iddon,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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Taken together, the first four Mission: Impossibles were compellingly disorganized, a stark contrast with Hollywood’s ever more rigid notion of how to construct a franchise.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
31 May 2025
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The team seemed disorganized and began to unravel at that point, and the visitors took advantage.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Disrupt.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disrupt. Accessed 12 Jun. 2025.
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