disturbance
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"Drilling causes a lot of disturbance, and increased human activity would have an impact on wildlife."
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Climate change and environmental disturbance have aided an increasing creep of the territories ticks inhabit—along with the viruses, bacteria, and pathogens they carry.
From Slate ● Aug. 6, 2026
Police later arrived due to a call about another disturbance at the hotel around the same time.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
That is the price paid to keep the disturbance negligible.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
That she'd know somehow, that she'd sense a disturbance in the Force.
From "Eleanor & Park" by Rainbow Rowell
One bill limits liability for rocket launchers that own at least 20,000 contiguous acres related to noise, exhaust and other disturbances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Heat often creates disturbances that make quantum systems harder to control, but under the right conditions, it could instead become a useful resource.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
It was among the costliest civil disturbances in American history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The phenomenon happens when fluids - in this case hot gases - slide past each other and cause small disturbances to grow into spiralling vortices.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
There had been other disturbances earlier that summer, in South Carolina, Texas, and Washington, D.C.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
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