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disorder

[dis-awr-der] / dɪsˈɔr dər /






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In legal filings before her execution date, Pike’s attorneys argued that because of a blood disorder, using pentobarbital exacerbated her risk of developing the condition.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

All had either a blood disorder with the potential to become cancerous or a low-risk form of blood cancer.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

However, the Drumcree parade dispute in Portadown has not descended into disorder or trouble on the streets.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

Blacknell also noted that prosecutors failed to call any medical experts to testify whether the crash could be linked to bi-polar disorder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

But luckily, there was such disorder inside, with the adults trying to hurry the children through so as to clear the way for the passengers from the zeppelin, that no one was watching very carefully.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman

These disorders are marked by twisted accumulations of tau protein in the brain.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

There is a large and growing body of evidence that shows UPFs are linked to obesity, cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders such as diabetes, as well as mental health problems and even premature death.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Lopez’s medical bills are covered by workers’ compensation insurance, but her health has worsened and her doctor has referred her to specialists who deal with respiratory and nervous system disorders, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

There is already clinical evidence that targeting ClC-1 can improve some measures of muscle strength and function in people with neuromuscular disorders, although those studies have involved conditions other than sarcopenia.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

For myself, I sent a humble greeting to St. Medericus, the Hermit, w'ho is invoked against intestinal disorders.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

"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

They cannot persist without solace, without illusion, they are disordered before the naked picture of despair.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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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