perturbing

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“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

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

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

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

But we have also been perturbing the climate in the opposite sense.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan