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disorder

[dis-awr-der] / dɪsˈɔr dər /






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At least 43 migrants died in the chaos, and daily life and commerce in the city of Ceuta shut down as disorder reined.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

There might be coaches who could help with issues like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or therapists she could talk to about her mental health.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Parkinson's disease is a chronic, degenerative neurological disorder that affects the body's motor system, often causing shaking and other difficulties in movement.

From Barron's Jul. 27, 2026

Parkinson’s disease, according to the Mayo Clinic, is a nervous system movement disorder that worsens with time and cannot be cured.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

We can’t go back in time and diagnose him, but from here it looks like a form of epilepsy or, most likely, the beginnings of bipolar disorder, which is also known as manic depression.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

Leng noted that previous research has shown that treating sleep disorders can alter brain wave activity recorded during sleep.

From Science Daily Jul. 31, 2026

Assigning yourself the heavy duty of curing all disorders, however, strikes me as even more hubristic than comparing oneself to Jesus Christ.

From Slate Jul. 31, 2026

Its electrophysiology business, which focuses on treating heart-rhythm disorders, is also struggling to keep up with fiercer competition.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 29, 2026

That leads to drop in milk production and also causes reproductive disorders.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Is it any wonder Americans suffer from so many eating disorders?

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

As a psychiatrist, he was mindful of the whole person who was suffering—not merely a disordered brain.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 28, 2026

Like all grieving, it is complicated and disordered, and beautifully so.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

An Anthropic spokesman says its Claude chatbot models have classifiers designed to recognize signs of disordered eating.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

Gallium is also valuable because it can dissolve other metals, making it useful for producing liquid metal catalysts and `self-assembling structures,' in which disordered materials spontaneously organize themselves into ordered forms.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

I heard a Scream, which was John, still disordered with Pain.

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

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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