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disorder

[dis-awr-der] / dɪsˈɔr dər /






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Ch Supt Daniel Whyte said anyone else involved in the disorder should expect a "knock on the door".

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

Chief Constable Jo Farrell issued a warning to anyone who may get caught up in disorder.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

Interior Minister Laurent Nunez announced Wednesday that 70,000 police officers and security forces would be deployed across the country, promising "an extremely firm response" to any "acts of violence" or disorder.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2026

Genetics are known to play a major role, but researchers have also found that conditions during pregnancy can influence the likelihood of autism spectrum disorder.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

I culled symptoms of mono, plantar warts, shingles, borderline personality disorder and a bladder infection, as well as listing a bunch of side effects from some TV ads for drugs.

From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen

Svensson and Coassolo are named inventors on patents involving the use of BRP peptides to treat metabolic disorders.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026

He targets the antipsychiatry movement for fostering dangerous misunderstandings about psychotic disorders and argues against “the tendency to treat mental illness as an exciting adventure.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

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

These include autoimmune disorders, allergies, and complications involving transplant rejection.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

Developing more positive attitudes about teaching students with behavior disorders goes a long way to reduce the stress of teaching them.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Rather than simply becoming disordered, the particles rearrange themselves into an unusual configuration that behaves differently from the quantum systems scientists have traditionally studied.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

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

I would reclaim his disordered days and cast them into a form that people could grasp, see, understand, and accept.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

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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