disorganize
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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 verdict, the first against the Mafia as a criminal enterprise, was the most damaging blow to La Cosa Nostra struck by the Justice Department in its highly successful crusade to disorganize organized crime.
From Time Magazine Archive
He warned that such sale would "disorganize the Government and other security markets."
From Time Magazine Archive
If passed, the amendment "will further impede and disorganize the defense program," will also stop normal industrial expansion.
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
Heating partly disorganizes the delicately balanced salts contained in the milk.
From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by R. L. Alsaker
It is purely an unnatural sensation, that temporarily disorganizes the nervous system.
From The Wonder Island Boys: Exploring the Island by Roger Thompson Finlay
Her first briefing on Tuesday lasted only 14 minutes as she took questions from just three reporters at Breitbart, Fox News and the Daily Mail, appearing flustered and disorganized.
From Salon ● Oct. 16, 2026
Even if on-the-ground reports of a burning west Altadena had reached the Rose Bowl base, the incident command located there was disorganized and chaotic, the report found.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
“The disorganized land grab that’s going on is not going to help anybody,” Burelli said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
As we ran, I could hear the disorganized sounds of an entire army trying to jump out of the stands and follow us.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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
In some cases, uncompromising campus militants seem more interested in disorganizing college administrations than in reorganizing curriculums.
From Time Magazine Archive
West of Kiev, mobile Soviet columns spread out for 45 miles like the tentacles of a huge octopus, seizing vast booty, disorganizing German resistance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Seamen, naval or mercantile, are of one great trade: the balance of our activities being thrown suddenly and violently to one side of our engagement could not fail in disorganizing the other.
From Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by David W. (David William) Bone
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