disturbance
Example Sentences
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Researchers found that disturbance created by commercial dredging is "widespread" across the lough and "could be affecting the ecosystem".
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
"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
Titan's current orbit, which is slightly elongated but gradually becoming more circular, also hints at a relatively recent disturbance consistent with a past merger.
From Science Daily • Feb. 27, 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
At the center of the disturbance was a wise-and-wizardly-looking man.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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