disorder
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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
Berk raised a series of text messages where Hernandez suggested she had bipolar disorder, but Olmedo froze that line of questioning as well.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
It makes official violence look calm and inevitable while popular response is made to look like disorder.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Following the unrest in Clapham, police warned they would take a "zero tolerance approach" to any reports of disorder and would keep "a strong visible presence".
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
“Entropy is the tendency of everything to move toward confusion and disorder as time passes,” he explained.
From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam
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"I fear that imposing food restrictions on teenagers could increase the risk of eating disorders, anorexia and body dysmorphia," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2026
They described dealing with panic attacks, anxiety, depression, gastrointestinal disorders and other stress-related illnesses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
"Helicobacter bacteria have long been associated with gastrointestinal disorders in humans and other animals, including chronic gastritis, ulcers, and even gastric cancer," said Annie Page, D.V.M.,
From Science Daily ● Jul. 21, 2026
The medications don’t warn against using the drugs if you have a history of eating disorders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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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Like all grieving, it is complicated and disordered, and beautifully so.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
Meanwhile, her eating became more disordered, governed by strict rules.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
A highly ordered state naturally evolves into a disordered one, never the reverse.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2026
The gravel bucket obeys that law, since shaking creates heat, which is disordered energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
At early times the universe would probably be in a disordered state.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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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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