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disorder

[dis-awr-der] / dɪsˈɔr dər /






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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

"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

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

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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