disturb
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“All of those actions are costly. They disturb employer-employee relationships. You lose co-workers. You have to move.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
As for the spectators, it is common courtesy not to disturb the players during points.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Thin stellar streams may be especially valuable because small concentrations of dark matter can potentially disturb them, producing visible gaps or clumps.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
Despite the cold, there’s no radiation to worry about and only gentle 10 mph winds to disturb those dunes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
The $64,000 Question was so popular that even President Eisenhower watched it every week, telling his staff not to disturb him during its time slot.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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But the principality’s lingering image as a Ruritanian outpost disturbs the family as it looks out from Vaduz castle on a thriving country smoothly run by supply-side economists, bankers and industrialists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
When ions move through a crystal lattice in a fluid-like way, their motion temporarily disturbs the lattice symmetry.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2026
What really disturbs professionals is the FDA’s injection of inconsistency into its reviews of drug applications.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
"It's polite to let them know and apologise in advance if it disturbs them. We'll normally turn the music down by 11 or midnight - or sometimes just invite them to join us."
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
No cock crows there; no watchdog breaks the silence; no branches rustle in the breeze; no clamor of tongues disturbs the peace.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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Halzen's great leap was to use ice instead -- unlike liquid water, it isn't disturbed by living creatures, and its darkness is constant at great depth.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Olah was disturbed after reading a copy of “Magnifica humanitas” and suggested pulling Anthropic out of the event, although he ultimately attended.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
It’s a quiet, contented life, “solid and safe,” Livia says, except that she remains disturbed by traumas from her youth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
He noticed an unusually bright patch surrounded by a dark halo, a pattern suggesting that material on the lunar surface had recently been disturbed.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
I watched superhero videos with them on my laptop in my room, closing the door so that Mama and Baba weren’t disturbed by their laughter.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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Brian had written down the recipe, and, in his back shed, Michael, with the eventual assistance of Kasey, sets about following it into strange and disturbing territory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
In an eight-minute video statement released on Saturday night, Michael Kotlikoff described the allegations raised by the woman, identified as Jane Doe, as "deeply disturbing".
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
The ads themselves, though, were not the most disturbing thing.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
Beneath the languished moves in the main stock-market indexes, there were some disturbing features.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
It was a disturbing image, and one she could not put out of her mind for a good long time, even after the children were asleep.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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