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disorder

[dis-awr-der] / dɪsˈɔr dər /






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The interior minister on Thursday warned of a "very high risk of public disorder", saying demonstrations would be allowed, but not in city centres.

From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 2026

Lewy body dementia symptoms tend to start with rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder, such as screaming or kicking during sleep.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

Schizophrenia is a complex psychiatric disorder that can affect how people experience the world, interact with their surroundings, and communicate with others.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

"Depressingly, the threat of serious and widespread disorder has loomed large," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

We can’t go back in time and diagnose him, but from here it looks like a form of epilepsy or, most likely, the beginnings of bipolar disorder, which is also known as manic depression.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

As I type, two studies and a clinical trial are ongoing to affirm how Shingrix may impact dementia, cardiovascular disorders, and major adverse cardiac events.

From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026

The findings build on more than a decade of research into rare inherited disorders that disrupt the body's ability to control inflammation.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

She worries many of them will develop post-traumatic stress disorders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Abnormal RNA accumulation has been observed in several conditions, including certain cancers, neurodegenerative diseases, and disorders associated with aging.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

This specialist now has a large number of detailed case histories based on every patient he has seen with leukemias, aplastic anemias, Hodgkin’s disease, and other disorders of the blood and blood-forming tissues.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Bossy’s direction raises the clamorous volume instead of sorting out the disordered structure or digging into the unexamined silences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Rather than understanding dissociation as a symptom of disordered eating, researchers increasingly consider how it may both emerge from and help maintain these patterns.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Dr Neil Stanley, sleep expert and author of the book How to Sleep Well, argues that gamifying sleep is creating more disordered sleeping.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Light can be disordered in one characteristic, such as the directions in which it travels, while still creating photons that are entangled through another characteristic, such as polarization.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

The body politic was so disordered that all government seemed suspended.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

But there will be many pairs of events that are causally related, that will end up far from each other—thus disordering space and locality.

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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