perturb
Example Sentences
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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
Overall, there's nothing here that would perturb a consumer.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2025
"This observation is different from previous models where boundaries were assumed to perturb the order," he continues.
From Science Daily • Sep. 29, 2023
Maybe overactive immune cells continue to perturb the nervous system and nearby blood vessels.
From Scientific American • Feb. 14, 2023
The news didn’t perturb him as much as excite his curiosity.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
