disorder
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At least 43 migrants died in the chaos, and daily life and commerce in the city of Ceuta shut down as disorder reined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
There might be coaches who could help with issues like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or therapists she could talk to about her mental health.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
But after being dropped in 2009, he said he suffered "probably the worst 12 months of my life" due to his struggle with depression and bipolar disorder.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 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
The boy cleared his throat, barked and then said, “Tourette syndrome is a neurological disorder that causes involuntary motor or oral tics.”
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
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Assigning yourself the heavy duty of curing all disorders, however, strikes me as even more hubristic than comparing oneself to Jesus Christ.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
Health conditions like pituitary-gland issues and genetic disorders such as Klinefelter syndrome can also result in testosterone deficiency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Those with uncontrolled high blood pressure, certain heart rhythm disorders, severe anxiety, insomnia, or other conditions that require caffeine restriction should speak with a healthcare provider before increasing their coffee intake.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026
"I fear that imposing food restrictions on teenagers could increase the risk of eating disorders, anorexia and body dysmorphia," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
And had his successors been united they would have enjoyed it at their leisure, for in that kingdom no disorders arose other than those they stirred up themselves.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Like all grieving, it is complicated and disordered, and beautifully so.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
AI companies say they are working to improve how their models recognize and respond to signs of 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
His senses were disordered; all he knew was hold tight and drag down.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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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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