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By coordinating insecticide applications with the beetles' reproductive cycles, researchers hope to disrupt larval development before the insects can inflict extensive damage on blueberry roots.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

Mr. Glassman hardly seemed like a figure who would soon disrupt the multibillion-dollar fitness industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Woods recalled feeling relaxed throughout the celebrations, with one bridal accessory briefly threatening to disrupt her calm.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

While officially there is no link between them, authorities from various countries will be co-operating to assess whether this was a co-ordinated attack, designed to disrupt airspace.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

I stood to the side, not wanting to disrupt Lev’s business.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

The internet isn’t going anywhere; the question for investors is who makes money as AI disrupts its economics.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

"The smoke not only reduces visibility and disrupts aircraft operations, but also affects residents' health," the agency warned.

From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026

The anxious spiral can outlast the physical symptoms, because it feeds on itself: worry disrupts thinking, and disrupted thinking produces more worry.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Event cancellation insurance protects Olympic hosts in the event that a natural disaster, terrorist threat, health emergency or other unforeseen event disrupts the quadrennial sports extravaganza.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

We trade in our morning books for our afternoon books and then Boy21 says, “They don’t want me to wear my outer-space clothes. They say it disrupts the school day. Do you agree?”

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick

That could be sharpening the temperature contrast across Eurasia, which in turn would amplify Rossby waves and making the polar vortex more likely to be disrupted.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026

Conversely, removing trade protections on America’s steel mills and other key industries won’t solve disrupted oil shipping.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

On Monday, a wave of apparent cyberattacks on supermarket freezers and refrigerators disrupted food stores across Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Quantum states can be disrupted by interactions with their surroundings, including the instruments scientists use to examine them.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

The sirrahs continued to circle, squalling their ravenous chorus, and their ranks were disrupted once more, as they had been yesterday, by the passage of a message falcon.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Civil aviation has increasingly become a target in conflicts playing out across the globe, in part because of the economic impact disrupting transport networks has on a nation’s economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Lengyel then disabled DHRS7 in zebrafish, preventing the production of the enzyme and disrupting the signaling process.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

By disrupting the membrane's stability, it causes the infected cell to die, stopping the viral infection from spreading.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

After years of chronic fuel shortages, the southern African nation also has the highest petrol prices on the continent, disrupting livelihoods and straining an economy starved of foreign currency.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

The amount of soot and floating ash from the impact and following fires would blot out the sun, certainly for months, possibly for years, disrupting growing cycles.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson