disruptive

Example Sentences

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For seniors, change often isn’t just disruptive, it’s frightening.

From MarketWatch

Parts of northern and eastern England face snow and ice warnings for Tuesday, while the Met Office has warned that "disruptive" snow, wind and rain could fall in the south later in the week.

From BBC

By developing a new high-density operating approach for EAST, the team showed that plasma density can be pushed well past long-standing empirical limits without triggering the disruptive instabilities that usually end experiments.

From Science Daily

Things became even more disruptive by the rise of charter schools and private schools taking away top athletes.

From Los Angeles Times

The through line in my career has been adapting nascent, emerging or disruptive technologies for national security.

From The Wall Street Journal