disorder
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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
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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
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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
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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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