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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

Using this epigenomic editing technology, the researchers can "perturb" candidate regions to see whether any tested genomic regions can impact downstream gene expression.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 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

Because it's so vast, and so poorly understood, Prof Schmidt added, "the worry is that we'll start destroying those ecosystems - and perturb all these vital processes - that we really don't understand".

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2021

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

He’s become an itinerant street performer who rivets and perturbs spectators with his uncanny ability to reproduce the physical appearance of anyone in his audience.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022

There are indeed magnetic anomaly stripes that go through Iceland, although the activity of the island's volcanoes perturbs those stripes, so they are hard to follow.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 20, 2020

The lesser luminary perturbs the tide of human passion; the greater light draws it upward—none the less veritably because in tinted formless vapor.

From Hints for Lovers by T. Arnold (Theodore Arnold) Haultain

Investors don’t appear to be perturbed by the prospect of tighter monetary policy, they say, citing that holdings in gold exchange-traded funds have risen in recent sessions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Whenever grief has perturbed him, Caballero has processed it through creativity.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 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

I stomped down the hall and into my room, Tamika trailing in my perturbed wake.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

That people are so susceptible to what they read, watch and listen to online is perturbing enough as it is.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2025

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 perturbing and upsetting,” said Mark Bookbinder, a 68-year-old engineer who lives in Cincinnati.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

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

We are perturbing our poor planet in serious and contradictory ways.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan