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How to pronounce disruption in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms break, gap, interruption
Type of delay, holdup
Has types insert, barracking, breaking off, cut-in, heckling, abruption, interjection, interpellation, interpolation, interposition
Derivation disrupt
Type Words
Synonyms commotion, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do
Type of disorder
Has types turmoil, upheaval, incident, uproar, tumultuousness, tumult, splash, stir, storm, storm center, storm centre, tempest, earthquake, garboil, convulsion
Type Words
Synonyms dislocation
Type of interruption, break
Type Words
Synonyms perturbation
Type of disturbance
Has types surprise, dislocation, breakdown, surprisal
Derivation disrupt

Examples of disruption

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BlackBerry users are suffering their third successive day of service disruption.
From the guardian.co.uk
The arguments lasted all morning with no disruption from anyone in the audience.
From the bostonherald.com
Cholera bacteria thrive on poverty and disruption, and Haiti has plenty of both.
From the newscientist.com
He believes that currently, there are three waves of disruption on the internet.
From the techcrunch.com
Our intention is to minimise disruption to other road users and local residents.
From the kidderminstershuttle.co.uk
His intrusion in the delicate bargaining caused disruption rather than progress.
From the time.com
It restrains all persons from taking over buildings or causing other disruption.
From the time.com
Studies have linked BPA to illnesses that could be caused by hormone disruption.
From the fresnobee.com
The consequences of CIT's failure involves more than disruption of credit lines.
From the online.wsj.com
More examples
  • Break: an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity; "it was presented without commercial breaks"; "there was a gap in his account"
  • Disturbance: a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused"
  • Dislocation: an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
  • The act of causing disorder
  • (disrupt) interrupt: make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"
  • (disrupt) throw into disorder; "This event disrupted the orderly process"
  • Disruption is the term most commonly used for ending an adoption. While technically an adoption is disrupted only when it is abandoned by the adopting parent or parents before it is legally completed (an adoption that is reversed after that point is instead referred to in the law as having been ...
  • A schema is a template in computer science used in the field of genetic algorithms that identifies a subset of strings with similarities at certain string positions. Schemata are a special case of cylinder sets; and so form a topological space.
  • The Disruption was the first release by American indie rock band Cursive and was released in 1996 on Lumberjack Records, and was re-released in 1997 with alternate cover art, when Lumberjack changed their name to Saddle Creek. The only format it was available in was 7".