disrupting

Example Sentences

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The challenge is timing and precision: removing the harmful lingering cells without disrupting the useful early repair signals.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

Main Street was closed between Ocean Park Boulevard and Hollister Avenue, disrupting traffic for several hours during the investigation.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2026

Aurélien Martini of the USM magistrates' union said that citizen vigilantes "risked disrupting genuine police investigations that might already be under way into a suspect".

From BBC • May 15, 2026

Lula's new plan aims to focus on financially strangling criminal factions, disrupting money laundering and cracking down on illicit markets that supply these groups, such as arms trafficking.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

Concluding that economics, not politics, held the key to black success in America, Moore started a new career as a corporate gadfly, disrupting stockholders' meetings with pointed questions about racial policies and hiring practices.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson