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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

"The enemy loosed his attacks on the central front to disorganize the moves of German reserves."

From Time Magazine Archive

Not to get the resources of Russia for wartime use; war would further disorganize Russia's badly organized productive capacity.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Hostile forces are trying to create new centers of anarchy, disturb the rhythm of normal work in factories and disorganize the life of the country."

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

It is purely an unnatural sensation, that temporarily disorganizes the nervous system.

From The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island by Roger Thompson Finlay

Heating partly disorganizes the delicately balanced salts contained in the milk.

From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by R. L. Alsaker

The research may also provide forecasters with additional clues about which disorganized tropical cyclones are beginning to transition into a structure that is more favorable for intensification.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

However, many who were active in the effort to stop Mamdani’s election, which ultimately turned out to be a disorganized failure, took that as a sign that defeat was imminent.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 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

Here and there houses were clustered near one another against small forests and wild, disorganized fields, but they were green—nothing was destroyed!

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata

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

Employed in the six-man dance band which his father led as a weekend hobby, twelve-year-old Ralph soon began disorganizing the outfit with Waller-style chords and riffs plus a smattering of local St. Louis ragtime.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many of the assembled diplomats were forcibly reminded of Castro's disorganizing power back in their home territories.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some distinguished alumni of the college, and other gentlemen, remonstrated against it as an innovation not soundly moral and conservative, but radical and disorganizing.

From The History of Dartmouth College by Baxter Perry Smith




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