disrupter
nounEtymology From disrupt + -er.
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Someone or something that disrupts.
- [Kazuma] Sekiya comes from a bloodline of disrupters.2025 May 3, Harry Dempsey, David Keohane, “Can you run a company as a perfect free market?”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 19:
- This is [Jean-Luc] Godard the disrupter (played by Guillaume Marbeck), shooting guerilla-style in Paris without lights, permits and often without a script.2025 May 24, Raphael Abraham, “In Godard we trust”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 16:
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Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction An energy weapon in the form of a pistol.