The unexpected power outage threatened to disrupt the laboratory experiments scheduled for the night.

The team implemented a non-disruptive update to the system to avoid downtime.

Disruptive selection can cause a single species in the same habitat to split into subpopulations with different adaptations when intermediate traits are disadvantageous.

Governments agreed to increase inspections after intelligence revealed secret programs developing weapons of mass disruption.

Activists warned that the viral misinformation campaign was a weapon of mass disruption, paralyzing civic debate without physically harming anyone.