disturbance

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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

The species, which is native to Peru and Chile, is listed as vulnerable in the wild due to threats like climate change, overfishing and habitat disturbance.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 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

Others have tracked attendance at political gatherings, parsing changes in seating arrangements or unexplained absences that can signal a disturbance in an official’s career trajectory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026

If the disturbance is from a regular vibration, the result is that the molecules end up squeezed together into evenly-spaced waves.

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