disrupted

Example Sentences

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U.S. exporters have benefited from the Iran war, which has disrupted the Middle East’s LNG supply.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

During the Fifa Club World Cup last year, six football matches were disrupted due to heat and thunderstorms, including a two-hour delay during a match between Chelsea and Benfica.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

The nationwide Canvas outage that disrupted colleges and universities during finals week forced campuses across the country to improvise as faculty and students suddenly lost access to exams, assignments, grades and other course materials.

From Salon • May 9, 2026

Those included oil in transit and on-water oil barrels that served as a “stopgap” for the disrupted supply.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

The body plans of vertebrates depend on this property: if hemoglobin’s capacity to deliver oxygen to distant sites was disrupted, our bodies would be forced to be small and cold.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee