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disorganize

[dis-awr-guh-nahyz] / dɪsˈɔr gəˌnaɪz /


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In the 1913 testimony Mitchell opposed a separate Air Service, and condemned disgruntled officers for making statements which might disorganize the service.

From Time Magazine Archive

If passed, the amendment "will further impede and disorganize the defense program," will also stop normal industrial expansion.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was said to have bribed the Chairman of the Soviet Meat Trust, Professor Alexander Riazanzev, to "disorganize the Soviet food distribution system and promote wholesale famine in Russia."

From Time Magazine Archive

He warned that such sale would "disorganize the Government and other security markets."

From Time Magazine Archive

It is, basically, a response to propaganda, something like the panic-producing pheromones that slave-taking ants re lease to disorganize the colonies of their prey.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

Blanchard recommends expanding the export controls from defense-related production to “anything which disorganizes production” in the Russian economy.

From Seattle Times Mar. 20, 2022

“Not only does the current protocol fail to protect students, staff and their families, but it also completely disorganizes schools.”

From New York Times Jan. 13, 2022

For the Communists to practice drastic reform as they made war was relatively easy, for in partisan warfare anything that disorganizes society operates to the enemy's disadvantage.

From Time Magazine Archive

She dared not breathe her doubts; but, like a subtle poison which disorganizes everything with which it comes in contact, this new suspicion filled her thoughts, and added to her already intolerable sufferings.

From File No. 113 by Gaboriau, Émile

But a long opposition influences and disorganizes the judgment, forms not those genuine statesmen able to grasp great events.

From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count

“It’s majorly disorganized, which is weird for our country,” McFarlane added.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 2, 2026

She hurried back as the fires broke containment, but her absence, which her social media posts seemed to obscure, became the symbol of a disorganized response to the disaster.

From Slate Jun. 3, 2026

In contrast, basal subtype tumors are more disorganized and aggressive, and they are often resistant to chemotherapy.

From Science Daily Mar. 3, 2026

Andie’s disorganized but inventive, and that’s exactly the way she likes it.

From Salon Feb. 28, 2026

At first, they flew in a disorganized jumble, but each goose slowly drifted into place until the flock was flying in perfect V formation, with Brightbill at the point.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

This double-sax quartet pays homage to Charlie Parker by cutting up, slowing down and disorganizing his compositions.

From New York Times Dec. 6, 2018

One progress report notes that she “seemed to contribute a somewhat disorganizing influence to the class.”

From Slate Dec. 3, 2015

In some cases, uncompromising campus militants seem more interested in disorganizing college administrations than in reorganizing curriculums.

From Time Magazine Archive

West of Kiev, mobile Soviet columns spread out for 45 miles like the tentacles of a huge octopus, seizing vast booty, disorganizing German resistance.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is the synthetical reaction in the cell, and the analytical or splitting reaction—the organizing, and the disorganizing processes—what keeps up this seesaw and preserves the equilibrium?

From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John




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