disrupt
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The other learning: Companies are building new products that will disrupt existing, publicly traded companies that we seek to avoid.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
A strike that had the potential to disrupt the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026
A strong El Niño would disrupt crop production, sharply driving up agricultural commodity prices.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
United Launch Alliance, a rocket company owned by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, has warned that flying Starship from even one pad in the area would likely disrupt other rocket operations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
"It seeks to poison and disrupt in order to hurl us into an epoch of chaos," shouts Hitler.
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Vocabulary lists containing disrupt
Make a Break for It: Rupt
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This Week in Words: December 9 - 15, 2017
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President Obama's Speech to the Nation about Terrorism
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