disruptive
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Jean Smart’s Deborah Vance is finally a late-night host, but in ‘Hacks’ and in reality, such programming is struggling, even with disruptive shows like “Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
Quantum systems’ disruptive potential lies in their ability to execute Shor’s algorithm, or find the prime factors of an integer in polynomial time.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
China has shrunk to 18% of the car maker’s volumes and is not likely to come back, U.S. tariffs are disruptive, and the luxury backdrop has been weak, Jefferies says.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026
Better known for its colourful watches from the 1980s, AP Swatch has described the Royal Pop collection as "a disruptive collaboration between two icons of Swiss watchmaking".
From BBC • May 18, 2026
‘I am never invited to see my parents. I can only wander the ruins of their old domains. They find my presence . . . disruptive.’
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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