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disorder

[dis-awr-der] / dɪsˈɔr dər /






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Most scientists today view it as a neurodevelopmental disorder, and clinicians debate whether the protean manifestations of schizophrenia are all part of a discrete biological phenomenon.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

Parkinson's disease is a chronic, degenerative neurological disorder that affects the body's motor system, often causing shaking and other difficulties in movement.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

Parkinson's is a progressive disorder that affects the brain, nervous system, and muscle control.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

It makes official violence look calm and inevitable while popular response is made to look like disorder.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

“If the disorder should continue to spread among them,” a very gloomy Benjamin Rush commented, “then will the measure of our suffering be full.”

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

They described dealing with panic attacks, anxiety, depression, gastrointestinal disorders and other stress-related illnesses.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Some doctors say the drugs have as much potential to hurt people with certain eating disorders as to help people with others.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Rollin’s business has helped treat people with eating disorders who’ve obtained GLP-1 medications to suppress their appetites, as well as those who were triggered into disordered eating while taking the drugs for approved conditions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

The film explores conversations around eating disorders, mental health, alcohol dependency and difficult family dynamics.

From BBC Jul. 16, 2026

This sort of evidence — and no more — forms the basis of a vast amount of medical therapy in many other disorders.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Like all grieving, it is complicated and disordered, and beautifully so.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

Earlier this year Anthropic introduced a new evaluation dedicated to disordered eating.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

Gallium is also valuable because it can dissolve other metals, making it useful for producing liquid metal catalysts and `self-assembling structures,' in which disordered materials spontaneously organize themselves into ordered forms.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

By quieting food noise, these drugs might be able to address some of the hallmarks of disordered eating.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 8, 2026

I told Luzan what I could; for years I felt disordered by it, sickened, until I released the secret to him.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

The researchers then expose the cilia to a damped, alternating magnetic field which has the effect of disordering the magnetization of the microparticles.

From Science Daily Apr. 24, 2024

The economic and social troubles of 1993 rippled through my community, as these things do, disordering the trajectories of lives and industries to the ruin of some.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 28, 2021

Could this disordering of locality serve to explain the quantum nonlocality inherent in entangled particles?

From Scientific American Apr. 4, 2019

Furthermore, disordering the ligand distribution drastically increases adhesion growth, but reduces the rigidity threshold for adhesion collapse.

From Nature Dec. 5, 2017

But the vapour of a limekiln would come between me and them, disordering them all, and it was through the vapour at last that I saw two men looking at me.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens




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