disturbing

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Only male hedgehogs are chosen to avoid disturbing nesting females.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

So the only reasonable charge was violating the city ordinance against disturbing “the peace of others by violent, offensive or boisterous conduct or language,” but that was tacked on later, in February.

From Slate • May 4, 2026

Kapelovitz focuses on felony defense, though he handles “everything from disturbing the peace to murder” for a client base that is 90% indigent.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

“We were both relieved we finished the story, but that’s within this really difficult, complicated, disturbing context,” Sheen said in an interview last year.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 30, 2026

At least a hundred years seemed to have passed before Shirley could bend and unbend her stubborn fingers well enough to hit each of the eight notes of the scale without disturbing its neighbor.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord