perturb
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Some possible treatments have looked to block the origin of the itch to relieve the sensation, Gualdani said, “but it seems if we perturb this pathway, we also perturb eventual itch relief.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026
"This observation is different from previous models where boundaries were assumed to perturb the order," he continues.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2023
A deficiency can perturb the proper formation of those circuits, Eyles and his colleagues have found.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 13, 2023
"There was no physical violence or rise in thefts, but they perturb people who are from here," he says, adding: "From now on it's zero tolerance."
From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2022
The storm, and the resulting minor earthquakes, did not perturb the meerkats in the least.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
The main problem with room temperature is thermal noise, which perturbs delicate quantum dynamics.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024
Perhaps this marks the beginning of a pop culture reconsideration of America’s role in the war, adding nuance that perturbs the accepted heroic narrative.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
Alade Adeleke: It perturbs the coastal ecosystem, the water system changes, the fisheries is affected.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 17, 2021
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fictional West Egg, Nick Carraway’s “ragged lawn” so perturbs Jay Gatsby that he sends his own gardener to tame it.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2019
Our moon perturbs at first sight nothing, and accordingly its mass is not even yet known with exactness.
From Pioneers of Science by Sir Oliver Lodge
Not that McIlroy seemed perturbed as the wind gusted beyond 30mph across the 7,440-yard track.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026
“I can’t even believe it,” a visibly perturbed Putin said on camera.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025
More curiously, even though U.S. high-yield spreads are at post-1998 lows, few investors seemed to be unduly perturbed here.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 18, 2025
His adversaries think he’ll crumple like yesterday’s broadsheet when they turn him away, and are perturbed to realize he’s more like the human equivalent of tissue hanging onto the heel of a shoe.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025
“But what’s so special about it—?” Meanwhile, perturbed rumors had been scooting around in high places.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
“It’s perturbing and upsetting,” said Mark Bookbinder, a 68-year-old engineer who lives in Cincinnati.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
By combining this data with gene expression analysis and the known effects of perturbing specific genes, scientists have ascribed functions to such chromatin marks.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2024
It’s a perturbing relationship; I feel as though my continued shunning of organized religion has in a sense estranged me from the memory of some very important people.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024
This is because the smoke has disrupted this dynamic growth pattern, as opposed to just perturbing a more stable system like an adult.
From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2023
But we have also been perturbing the climate in the opposite sense.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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