disorder
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I had an eating disorder, which is still kind of … You know, last night, I asked for apple juice during the show — I was in trouble because I wasn’t eating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The subject—given no hope of recovery, or of a very long life—used performance art to exert control over his body, his world, and the lung disorder that had plagued him since birth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Imagine a relatively uneventful in which the Fed raises rates, explains its reasoning convincingly; Treasury yields settle; inflation expectations remain contained; the dollar behaves normally; and equities absorb the decision without disorder.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
New research published in Science Translational Medicine focuses on primary aldosteronism, a hormone disorder that may affect up to one in five people with high blood pressure.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
The darkness and disorder inside the camp lie in sharp contrast to the outside.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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While others with hearing disorders can perceive certain low-frequency vibrations as sound, for Pride almost everything is completely inaudible without powerful hearing aids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
"We take into account their sleep patterns, their diet, their weight, the amount they exercise, what medication they might be taking and we assess for signs of sleep disorders," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Previous research has connected PDE5i medications with several types of eye problems, including disorders involving the optic nerve and the macula, which is the area of the retina responsible for detailed central vision.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Sleep duration is the single most trustworthy number on any device, says Dr. Katherine Malcolm, director of the sleep disorders center at University of California, San Francisco.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
It was boredom with a twist, the kind of boredom that caused stomach disorders.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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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
"Treating the light classically makes it much easier to define which part of the energy can be used to perform work and which part is disordered heat," says Janovitch.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 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
With a major career milestone within her reach and increased appearances in front of the camera, the sudden pressures on Maddie trigger long-hidden patterns of disordered eating: bingeing and purging, secrets and lies.
From Salon ● Aug. 8, 2026
Such a state is less ordered, or more disordered, than the original state in which all the molecules were in one half.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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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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