perturb
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Some possible treatments have looked to block the origin of the itch to relieve the sensation, Gualdani said, “but it seems if we perturb this pathway, we also perturb eventual itch relief.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
"This observation is different from previous models where boundaries were assumed to perturb the order," he continues.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2023
“We can perturb, we can manipulate, we can knock out every possible mouse or human gene,” Fu says.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 26, 2022
"There was no physical violence or rise in thefts, but they perturb people who are from here," he says, adding: "From now on it's zero tolerance."
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2022
The storm, and the resulting minor earthquakes, did not perturb the meerkats in the least.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
The main problem with room temperature is thermal noise, which perturbs delicate quantum dynamics.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024
Perhaps this marks the beginning of a pop culture reconsideration of America’s role in the war, adding nuance that perturbs the accepted heroic narrative.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
Alade Adeleke: It perturbs the coastal ecosystem, the water system changes, the fisheries is affected.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 17, 2021
It is where Snyder and his closest companions retreat when the game perturbs him, when his intensity boils over.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2016
Now this development naturally perturbs and even paralyzes us.
From What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
“I’m a little perturbed, and I’m a little disappointed, because you have someone who is trying to work with industry, who is trying to get facts and data,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026
I obviously was perturbed by it, but I acted like I wasn’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
He talked in friendly terms about the western allies that had been most perturbed by his social media posts.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
More curiously, even though U.S. high-yield spreads are at post-1998 lows, few investors seemed to be unduly perturbed here.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 18, 2025
Was nature somehow perturbed less by a vacuum on top of a mountain than by a vacuum in the valley?
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
The last is especially perturbing to the family dog, Starbuck.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
I was especially struck by an extremely perturbing exchange between the two, about what appears to be Summers’ embattled pursuit of a woman.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025
It’s a perturbing relationship; I feel as though my continued shunning of organized religion has in a sense estranged me from the memory of some very important people.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024
Changes in the spin state can be observed by shining a laser through the material to see how many defects are "on" or "off" after perturbing them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2023
Like the photograph of the spider-dancer, Mrs. Richardson found this perturbing but strangely compelling.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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