disturbs
Example Sentences
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Any attempt to intercept the quantum signals disturbs them, creating detectable errors that alert users to possible eavesdropping.
From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026
Old Hunter, an ex-police detective now working in private security, disturbs Chen’s depressive apathy with a request that he help find a man called X, a former philosophy professor who ran afoul of authorities.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 16, 2026
Just like moving fingers under the running water from a tap can disrupt its steady flow, HIP 67522 b disturbs the star’s magnetic field as it orbits around its host star.
From Space Scoop • Jul. 17, 2025
The new footage shows how the chain that the trawlers drag behind them scours the seafloor, forcing the creatures it disturbs into the net behind.
From BBC • May 5, 2025
His teachers say he’s very intelligent but maladjusted, that he cries every night and disturbs the other boys’ sleep.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
