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Bear losing face in current disruption (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

eddy

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'current disruption' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to natural events as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'bear losing face' is the wordplay.
'bear' becomes 'teddy' (teddy bear is a stuffed toy).
'losing face' means to remove the first letter.
'teddy' with its first letter taken off is 'EDDY'.

'in' is the link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for eddy that I've seen before include "Spin" , "Swirl, whirl" , "Founder of sect" , "Swirl; Duane -, US guitarist" , "moving water" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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