disrupt
Example Sentences
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Iñarritu wishes they would, in fact, disrupt the light, so their shadows can enter the frame and transform it.
From Los Angeles Times
The customer base of India’s credit card industry has shifted to ‘transactors’, who pay their bills in full, from ‘revolvers’, who carry credit card balances, disrupting profitability of companies like SBI Cards and Payment Services.
While acknowledging there are geopolitical risks stemming from, say, an escalation in hostilities with Iran, that could disrupt and destabilize markets, any dips should prove to be buying opportunities, the report says.
From MarketWatch
“The company that sold workflow automation was being disrupted by better workflow automation, and its response was to cut headcount and use the savings to fund the very technology disrupting it,” projects the report.
From MarketWatch
A total of more than 30,000 flights were delayed Sunday and early Monday, further disrupting travel routes in the region.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
