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“All of those actions are costly. They disturb employer-employee relationships. You lose co-workers. You have to move.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Earning a first DP World Tour win in 14 years - and effectively saving his job by doing so - would be enough to disturb the composure of most golfers.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

Despite the cold, there’s no radiation to worry about and only gentle 10 mph winds to disturb those dunes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

"Whenever we disturb the ground, when we cut down a tree and expose the soil, the fire can reignite," said fire chief Covens.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

He makes sure he does not disturb the arrangement of her shoes on the floor, but steps over them and disengages the back panel.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

“Like the anger disturbs my body so much that it makes me cry. No matter how much I tried to unplug from Carol, my body didn’t understand that I was pretending.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026

"Nature has already designed the perfect pollination system. When humans interfere too much, it often disturbs that balance," he says.

From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2026

Any attempt to intercept the quantum signals disturbs them, creating detectable errors that alert users to possible eavesdropping.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 17, 2026

Old Hunter, an ex-police detective now working in private security, disturbs Chen’s depressive apathy with a request that he help find a man called X, a former philosophy professor who ran afoul of authorities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

The string disturbs the air molecules around it as it vibrates, producing sound waves in the air.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

“Her genius really does live in the recesses of her disturbed brain.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi of Harvard Chabad said Zimmer was disturbed by then-Harvard President Claudine Gay’s response to the attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

Researchers have spent years investigating connections between disturbed sleep and neurodegenerative diseases.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026

But analysts weren’t as disturbed by the results, remaining bullish enough on the stock that it made the screen.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

Georges Laforgue was disturbed when I told him what I planned to do.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Scotland's justice secretary Neil Gray described Petrie's case as "extremely disturbing" and his abuse of his position of trust as "abhorrent."

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

The prize ceremony on Saturday wrapped up 10 days of often dark, disturbing programming that chief organiser Alberto Barbera had promised would echo the war-torn and anxiety-filled state of the world.

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

The inspector-general report, issued late last week and based on interviews with 53 current and former Labor Department employees, is a disturbing read.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Perhaps that’s because, if we stop clinging to the hope that it was all for the greater good, the events become too disturbing to imagine.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

“The specifics in your examples are disturbing sometimes.”

From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas