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disorder

[dis-awr-der] / dɪsˈɔr dər /






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"But if you increase disorder too much, you also lose stability. Our framework can help pinpoint the level of disorder that helps the system achieve optimal stability."

From Science Daily Sep. 19, 2026

In mitigation for her client, who admitted murder and possessing a knife, Frida Hussain KC said he had post-traumatic stress disorder after exposure to violence in his village and the deaths of relatives.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

They also said their son-in-law had suffered from worsening post-traumatic stress disorder.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

The company is developing a one-time gene therapy for Huntington’s disease that aims to slow the progression of the devastating neurodegenerative disorder.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Years before, I had told her what I’d learned in my psychology class about bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, but she had shrugged it off.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

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

She said she’s had patients find out about previously unknown thyroid disorders and kidney dysfunction during pre-ops.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Developing more positive attitudes about teaching students with behavior disorders goes a long way to reduce the stress of teaching them.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

Her eating became more disordered, governed by strict rules.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

Mr. Gitney and Mr. Sharpe sat across from us, clearly disordered by an excitation of nerves almost as extreme as my own.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

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

Could this disordering of locality serve to explain the quantum nonlocality inherent in entangled particles?

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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