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The term "disruption" in literature is employed with versatility, ranging from the sudden collapse of established orders to more nuanced breaks in continuity and unity. In some works, it conveys the abrupt interruption of political or social structures—for instance, the shattering of national or communal stability is highlighted as in the interruption of governmental functions ([1], [2], [3]). In religious and philosophical contexts, disruption often symbolizes an inevitable division or reordering of belief systems, reflecting the profound impact of change as seen in debates on spiritual schism ([4], [5]). Meanwhile, in scientific or natural discourses, it denotes a literal or metaphorical breaking apart of continuity, as when physical bonds or coherent thought processes are fractured ([6], [7]). This multifarious use of the word underscores its capacity to evoke both chaos and transformation across a broad spectrum of narrative and analytical treatments.
  1. The disruption of the American Union by the war of 1861 was not an unforeseen event.
    — from Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Raphael Semmes
  2. There developed a plan for the disruption of the government.
    — from The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Ketcham
  3. The year 1873 witnessed another revulsion of confidence and another disruption of the commercial and financial affairs of the country.
    — from Triumphs and Wonders of the 19th Century: The True Mirror of a Phenomenal Era A volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress by James P. (James Penny) Boyd
  4. 7. Of the disruption of the kingdom of Israel, by which the perpetual division of the spiritual from the carnal Israel was prefigured.
    — from The City of God, Volume II by Bishop of Hippo Saint Augustine
  5. The net gain from Protestantism thus lay in the fortuitous disruption of centralized spiritual tyranny.
    — from A Short History of ChristianitySecond Edition, Revised, With Additions by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson
  6. Beyond a certain limit no mechanical disruption of the body could hasten the process of decomposition.
    — from War and Peace by graf Leo Tolstoy
  7. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought.
    — from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

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