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disturb

[dih-sturb] / dɪˈstɜrb /




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"We'd at least be able to tell them, 'there are other people who are trying to disturb you'."

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

Natural England said they were a protected wild population under the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations, meaning it was illegal to capture, harm, or disturb them.

From BBC • May 13, 2026

The government isn’t asking the court to disturb Wong Kim Ark’s treatment of children born to lawful permanent residents—who nowadays have green cards.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Qubits can be extremely sensitive to changes in their external environment that disturb their superpositioned state and introduce errors into a calculation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

I switched on do not disturb but kept checking the lock screen to see if Traveler had messaged.

From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows




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