disturb

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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

Two-time finalist Medvedev then asked umpire Aurelie Tourte for a video review to see whether Draper had been guilty of hindrance - making either an action or a noise to disturb an opponent.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

“Soaring oil prices are likely to disturb that calm, sending the yield higher,” he says.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 9, 2026

In León, Carrillo frequently had to skate without music so as not to disturb the children with whom he shared the ice.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 2, 2026

The overseer listened respectfully and then began telling us to go, not to disturb the men, although for so long he had been glad of many watchers.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya