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A flight from Belfast to Egypt was cancelled on Saturday due to a "group of customers behaving disruptively onboard", EasyJet has said.

From BBC • Jan. 3, 2026

"By turning these hidden states on and off at will and controlling them with nanoscale resolution, we open exciting opportunities to disruptively advance next-generation optical and quantum technologies, including for sensing and computing."

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2025

Sometimes, the commentators are forced to leave meetings when they act disruptively, such as shouting from the audience or speaking beyond the time limit — but the ban doesn’t extend to future meetings.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023

The drop is why schools are disruptively scrambling to merge classrooms, after some of them ended up with as few as 11 students, The Seattle Times reported last week.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 11, 2023

Thus, when working with currents discharging disruptively, the element chiefly to be considered is not the frequency, as a student might be apt to believe, but the rate of change per unit of time.

From The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Martin, Thomas Commerford