- present participle of perturb.
perturbing
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Luka Doncic is the Lakers star opposing players love to hate, but his energy and reputation for perturbing players and fans is what makes him great.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026
“Undertone” pulls off this same trick nicely, with pockets of the mysterious audio files sounding genuinely perturbing, causing the audience to expect more scares as Evy and Justin work through all 10 of them.
From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2026
“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
But we have also been perturbing the climate in the opposite sense.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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