This emerging model is now big and disruptive (顛覆性的) enough for regulators and companies to have woken up to it

The crisis will prove hugely disruptive (破壞性的), however.

At the workplace, men use conflict as a way to position themselves, while women often avoid conflict or strive to be the peacemaker,because they don't want to be viewed as aggressive or disruptive at work.

The personal computing revolution and philosophy of disruptive innovation of silicon Valley grew, in part, out of the creations of the Homebrew Computer Chub, which was founded in a garage in Menlo Park, California, in the mid-1970s.

It's classic disruptive technology," Mironov said.