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
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
But for that you get a machine which is less likely to disturb the peace.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
He navigated the dark, silent mobile home, hoping not to disturb Uncle Jet, who was sleeping on the couch in the living room until the hogan was cleaned.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
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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
In early January, the city of San Diego sued the federal government over razor wire placed on its land, saying it constitutes trespassing and disturbs sensitive habitat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 1, 2026
Old Hunter, an ex-police detective now working in private security, disturbs Chen’s depressive apathy with a request that he help find a man called X, a former philosophy professor who ran afoul of authorities.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 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
And what I see in Dane’s perfectly beautiful face disturbs me.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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Their movement disturbed the orbits of smaller objects, setting off catastrophic collisions and producing brief periods filled with large amounts of dust, similar to what astronomers now observe in extreme debris disks.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
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
Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi of Harvard Chabad said Zimmer was disturbed by then-Harvard President Claudine Gay’s response to the attacks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
If the nilas is disturbed by wind, the ice forms rounded discs called pancakes, which look something like white lily pads with their edges turned up.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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Pastushenko says she finds Ukrainians’ ability to carry on both remarkable and disturbing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The ads themselves, though, were not the most disturbing thing.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
They said nothing had happened there and asked people to stop disturbing them.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
What was already a very darkly funny and incredibly gross film gets even more disturbing as Bryan ventures into the Raccoon City hospital, trying to make his delivery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
Something was disturbing him about the captive mouse.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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