disrupted

past tense of disrupt

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of disrupted And while those enforcement actions have not yet translated into criminal cases or fines against the employers, the raids themselves in some cases significantly disrupted business operations. Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025 Muscle cramps and playing surfaces As muscles fatigue, the normal balance between signals in the nervous system that direct muscles to contract and relax become disrupted. Michael Hales, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025 Heading into its second season, Unrivaled has already disrupted women’s basketball, with the league’s specter looming large in WNBA labor talks. Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 9 Sep. 2025 An audience’s expectations can be met or disrupted by what the performer brings. Lauren Morrow september 9, Literary Hub, 9 Sep. 2025 Protesters also disrupted the 2024 Indie Spirit Awards, with host Jim Gaffigan attempting to make his way through the presentation by speaking over the sound of protests happening outside the event's tent venue at the Santa Monica Pier in California. Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Sep. 2025 In 2019, Samsung's early bet on a flexible future disrupted this trend with the debut of its first Galaxy Fold, a bold experiment in foldable display technology that promised a new way to use smartphones. Mark Vena, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 When gamma rhythms are disrupted, as has been observed in ADHD, schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease, signals may arrive out of step and fail to get through cleanly, resulting in poorer attention and memory functioning. New Atlas, 2 Sep. 2025 Scientists say these have contaminated the soil, filled our oceans, disrupted food chains and penetrated most people’s organs and bones. Jia H. Jung, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disrupted
Verb
  • The United dressing room was said to be toxic and fractured when Mourinho departed, with Solskjaer would be the man to repair it.
    Carl Anka, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2025
  • By the eve of the Civil War, pro-slavery Southerners had even fractured the Democratic Party, which had long done their bidding.
    Time, Time, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Vic and Cali hadn’t wanted a wedding, but this had disturbed Vic’s parents.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Some civil servants working to bolster democracy around the world and at home, for example, were disturbed by shifts in foreign policy.
    Yvonne Zylan, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Cal Fire revoked the fireworks licenses for companies linked to the Esparto compound after their investigation concluded that Chee, Devastating’s owner, and Cutright, on behalf of BlackStar Fireworks, broke California fireworks laws.
    Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Bell recalls watching his parents perform in a production of Good News, laughing with his brother as a ukulele broke over his father’s head on stage.
    Maria Williams, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The office had been working with elderly, low-income and disabled people to see what most confused them about SSA processes and what would most help them if these were redesigned.
    Eli Hager, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Forgive some Colorado Avalanche fans if they’re confused by the lack of noise as training camp beckons.
    Corey Masisak, Denver Post, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Alternatively, a star being ripped apart in TDE could produce a day-long GRB, but this scenario fails to replicate other properties of the GRB 250702B, an explosion that would require a very unusual star being destroyed by an even stranger black hole.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Hadid was commissioned to design it for a fire brigade on the Vitra Campus after a major 1981 fire destroyed most of the complex, which originally consisted of factory buildings but is now a collection of contemporary design and architecture showrooms.
    Mae Hamilton, AFAR Media, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Budget cuts are about to bring big changes to San Diego’s 37 neighborhood library branches — including shorter hours, shuffled staff and rescheduled activities.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Over the past two months, he’s been shuffled through three detention centers despite attempts to pay a bond set by the immigration judge.
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 22 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Among other policy changes, the bill brought back 2017 tax cuts, increased funding for deportation efforts and reduced who is eligible for Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
    Avalon Hester, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
  • However, the length of time the computer takes to respond is within the designer's control, and its perception can be reduced by giving prompt and accurate feedback, even if the operation's actual execution time is longer.
    Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Until now, the only intervention has been antibiotics, which in turn upset the koala's delicate digestive tract – one fine-tuned to solely eat eucalyptus leaves.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2025
  • This upset many people, like Greg Clem, who has lived on Timberline since 2016.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Disrupted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disrupted. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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