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"Through this theoretical framework, we found that we can use small physical boundaries up to ten meters to perturb ocean transport barriers that spans kilometers," said Fang.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2026

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

“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 news didn’t perturb him as much as excite his curiosity.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

In his theory, the extra snow is creating a dense, cold air mass over northern Asia in the late autumn, setting off a complex chain of cause and effect that ultimately perturbs the vortex.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2011

The consequent nervous jar perturbs both breathing and circulation.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

"I wouldn't say angry. I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon, you know."

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

I obviously was perturbed by it, but I acted like I wasn’t.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 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

“Walked into town the morning after with not a scratch upon him. Hardly seemed perturbed at all, considering he’d just seen all his mates go to their reward. It was the queerest thing.”

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

The last is especially perturbing to the family dog, Starbuck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

By combining this data with gene expression analysis and the known effects of perturbing specific genes, scientists have ascribed functions to such chromatin marks.

From Science Daily ● May 9, 2024

This is because the smoke has disrupted this dynamic growth pattern, as opposed to just perturbing a more stable system like an adult.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2023

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

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan