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disturbance

[dih-stur-buhns] / dɪˈstɜr bəns /


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"Sea mines and other explosive devices can cause acoustic disturbance impacting sea mammals and other animals, and blast damage to natural undersea structures such as reefs," Weir said.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

This disturbance relaxes the usual Raman selection rules and produces distinctive low-frequency Raman scattering.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026

Hotel owners, councillors and residents have objected to the plans and warned they could increase disturbance.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

It was in November that a disturbance first knocked cold air southward and “sent weather patterns into a tailspin this season,” meteorologist Ben Noll wrote to me in an email.

From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026

The naked singularities were unstable: the least disturbance would cause them either to disappear or to be hidden behind an event horizon.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking




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