disorder
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I had an eating disorder, which is still kind of … You know, last night, I asked for apple juice during the show — I was in trouble because I wasn’t eating.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Owens said in a recent Medium post that the online vitriol drove her to an eating disorder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Imagine a relatively uneventful in which the Fed raises rates, explains its reasoning convincingly; Treasury yields settle; inflation expectations remain contained; the dollar behaves normally; and equities absorb the decision without disorder.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Because the disorder can be treated and, in some cases, potentially cured, detecting it earlier could help reduce the risk of preventable cardiovascular complications.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026
What squalor and disorder her sister lived in!
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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While others with hearing disorders can perceive certain low-frequency vibrations as sound, for Pride almost everything is completely inaudible without powerful hearing aids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
"We take into account their sleep patterns, their diet, their weight, the amount they exercise, what medication they might be taking and we assess for signs of sleep disorders," he says.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The pelacarsen study results also come less than a week after Novartis said it had paused eight trials of an experimental cell therapy for autoimmune and neurological disorders after three patients died.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
"For a vast majority of liver disorders, the graft does not need to sit close to the liver," Kumar says.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
By the small-pox, and other malignant disorders which have raged on board the fleet for many months past, it is clear they have lost, since their arrival at Gwin’s Island, near five hundred souls.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Dr Neil Stanley, sleep expert and author of the book How to Sleep Well, argues that gamifying sleep is creating more disordered sleeping.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
"Treating the light classically makes it much easier to define which part of the energy can be used to perform work and which part is disordered heat," says Janovitch.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Like all grieving, it is complicated and disordered, and beautifully so.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
But training AI to know when and how to offer advice to those struggling with disordered eating has proven difficult.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
The crow resembled more a humpy ball with straggling tail feathers, feathers as wispy and disordered as Gwystyl’s cobwebby hair.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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The researchers then expose the cilia to a damped, alternating magnetic field which has the effect of disordering the magnetization of the microparticles.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
The economic and social troubles of 1993 rippled through my community, as these things do, disordering the trajectories of lives and industries to the ruin of some.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021
But there will be many pairs of events that are causally related, that will end up far from each other—thus disordering space and locality.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 4, 2019
Furthermore, disordering the ligand distribution drastically increases adhesion growth, but reduces the rigidity threshold for adhesion collapse.
From Nature ● Dec. 5, 2017
But the vapour of a limekiln would come between me and them, disordering them all, and it was through the vapour at last that I saw two men looking at me.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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