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The quality or state of intefering or throwing into disorder.

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  • What outside forces (not under the same microscope as the physician under scrutiny) are contributing to the physician's "disruptiveness"?
  • That took a little more time, but it also prevented all disruptiveness afterwards.
  • And that any form of disruptiveness regarding a thread makes you feel alive, of worth?
  • Can you disaggregate the student's disruptiveness from his being out of step with the rest of the class?
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