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disturbed

adjective as in disturbed physically

adjective as in disturbed mentally

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Churchill entertained the guests with his description of the trading floor during the crash, which he later described as looking like a “disturbed ant heap.”

The prospect of an ICE recruitment fair nearby also disturbed him.

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Sethe, who has spent much of her life in slavery, is disturbed by the ghost of the baby she killed to spare the child from slavery.

Its slow rotation means that it is more easily disturbed by collisions, which can knock the asteroid into a chaotic tumble.

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But it was not a predator that had disturbed the quiet of their off-grid holiday: it was a flurry of text messages bearing the news that Dr Ramsdell had won the Nobel Prize for medicine.

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