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disorder

[dis-awr-der] / dɪsˈɔr dər /






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From this welter of disorder, Ms. Mandel seamlessly engineers a pair of convoluted, Rube Goldberg-style plots.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Linton had struggled with bipolar disorder for years before the crash and was twice hospitalized due to issues related to her mental illness.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

The paper 'Use of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists and the associated risk of hospitalisation in bipolar disorder, from a nationwide cohort, 2009-2024' has been published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica.

From Science Daily Sep. 8, 2026

Policing Minister Sarah Jones told the House of Commons the disorder on Sunday night was "intimidating and thuggish" and warned "those who cross into illegality" would "face the full force of the law".

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

The archive reflects the human need to document every deed and directive, to place a veil of administrative tidiness over the disorder of famines and plagues and natural disasters and crimes and wars.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

Encoded Therapeutics, a South San Francisco, Calif.-based developer of precision genetic medicines for severe neurological disorders, closed a $275 million Series F round from investors including GV and Venrock.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

Sleep duration is the single most trustworthy number on any device, says Dr. Katherine Malcolm, director of the sleep disorders center at University of California, San Francisco.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

That finding is particularly relevant because people with diabetes and other metabolic disorders may deliberately choose products labeled "sugar free" in an effort to avoid the health effects associated with table sugar.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

Persistent inflammation is also considered an important contributor to several neurodegenerative disorders.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

The disorders, and their classifications, change with each edition, reflecting new science and understanding.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

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

Light can be disordered in one characteristic, such as the directions in which it travels, while still creating photons that are entangled through another characteristic, such as polarization.

From Science Daily Aug. 8, 2026

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

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

I told Luzan what I could; for years I felt disordered by it, sickened, until I released the secret to him.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

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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