disorder
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Mia Perumal, who has recovered from an eating disorder, said she's worried the technology could make unrealistic beauty standards even harder for young people to escape.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
In legal filings before her execution date, Pike’s attorneys argued that because of a blood disorder, using pentobarbital exacerbated her risk of developing the condition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
Everyone in the study had a high BMI and at least one metabolic disorder -- such as hypertension, diabetes, or elevated LDL cholesterol.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
While Linton has not been diagnosed with an underlying seizure disorder, such as epilepsy, defense attorney Jovan Blacknell said Linton suffered intermittent seizures during her life, including at the time of the wreck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
As we walked into the room, Tanu and I looked frantically about for any disorder.
From "Homeless Bird" by Gloria Whelan
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Mia said: "It's all very well saying 'oh, it's AI, it's not real,' But eating disorders don't really listen to rationality."
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
People with these disorders think and act differently to others and, among other things:
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
One area that stood out was the prefrontal cortex, which showed higher PAD across multiple brain disorders.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
Sleep disorders, depression, obesity, smoking, and other health problems may also help keep symptoms going.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
For myself, I sent a humble greeting to St. Medericus, the Hermit, w'ho is invoked against intestinal disorders.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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Bossy’s direction raises the clamorous volume instead of sorting out the disordered structure or digging into the unexamined silences.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Rather than understanding dissociation as a symptom of disordered eating, researchers increasingly consider how it may both emerge from and help maintain these patterns.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
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
"Treating the light classically makes it much easier to define which part of the energy can be used to perform work and which part is disordered heat," says Janovitch.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 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
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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
But there will be many pairs of events that are causally related, that will end up far from each other—thus disordering space and locality.
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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