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disorder

[dis-awr-der] / dɪsˈɔr dər /






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Cohen Tzedek said he didn’t fit in at his yeshiva, a Jewish religious school, and struggled with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

Mutations in NRXN1 have previously been associated with autism spectrum disorder.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

The crowd disorder on 8 March came after a penalty shootout win for Celtic, when around 8,000 visiting supporters had been present.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

Bipolar disorder was suspected by psychiatric nurse practitioner Rebecca Jollotta and diagnosed by Tewksbury State Hospital and later by Dr. Kirk Heilbrun, the prosecution’s forensic psychology expert.

From Salon Sep. 2, 2026

He’d been the first investor to diagnose the disorder in the American financial system in early 2003: the extension of credit by instrument.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

The results could help scientists investigate how maternal nutrition, metabolic disorders, and other environmental influences affect the developing brain.

From Science Daily Sep. 4, 2026

She said she’s had patients find out about previously unknown thyroid disorders and kidney dysfunction during pre-ops.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Bristol-Myers Squibb BMY 0.35%increase; up pointing triangle said that it had paused similar trials of its CAR-T treatment in autoimmune disorders as a precautionary measure.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 1, 2026

"This creates addictions and dependencies. It also leads to attention disorders," Macron told the pupils.

From Barron's Sep. 1, 2026

The medical literature of this and other countries contains many significant cases that support Dr. Hargraves’ belief in a cause-and-effect relation between these chemicals and leukemia and other blood disorders.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

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

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

With a major career milestone within her reach and increased appearances in front of the camera, the sudden pressures on Maddie trigger long-hidden patterns of disordered eating: bingeing and purging, secrets and lies.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

Rollin’s business has helped treat people with eating disorders who’ve obtained GLP-1 medications to suppress their appetites, as well as those who were triggered into disordered eating while taking the drugs for approved conditions.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

This will probably be a disordered arrangement in which the pieces don’t form a proper picture, simply because there are so many more disordered arrangements.

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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