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disorder

[dis-awr-der] / dɪsˈɔr dər /






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Robert Carradine, best known for the 1980s “Nerds” movies, struggled with bipolar disorder for years, his family said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

It came after Gomez publicly discussed her own mental health struggles, including with bipolar disorder.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

Few people then, not even Carpenter’s closest confidantes, knew how to talk about what was actually an eating disorder, much less manage it.

From Salon Aug. 13, 2026

This loss can occur after brain injuries and in autoimmune diseases such as the rare neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder, in which the body's own antibodies attack and destroy astrocytes.

From Science Daily Aug. 12, 2026

Years before, I had told her what I’d learned in my psychology class about bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, but she had shrugged it off.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Indole metabolites have been connected to a wide range of diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, neurodegenerative disorders, and cancer.

From Science Daily Aug. 15, 2026

The French government had promoted the ban as a way to better protect young people from the harmful effects associated with social media platforms, including anxiety, depression, sleep disorders and online harassment.

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

Early is interested in the sickly vanity of eating disorders and conceptual femininity, and he explores the danger of these illnesses through a lens that is both uneasy and unique to his film.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

I will be screened for a range of different conditions, including skin cancer, cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, eye conditions like glaucoma, as well as kidney and blood disorders.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

“Can’t say. But there’s no use in trying to pin disease names on this. Human disorders apply to robots only as romantic analogies. They’re no help to robotic engineering.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

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

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

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

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

Kandel says the uptick in referrals suggests chatbots are getting better at detecting signs of disordered eating.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

The mess there felt disordered, for sure, but it also felt different—comfortable almost.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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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