interfere
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On Wednesday, the High Court of Australia quashed the reduced sentence, ruling it was "not open" to the Court of Appeal to "interfere" with the original decision.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Salt water can trigger unwanted chemical reactions and interfere with the movement of ions, making it difficult for many materials to function properly.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
Ramirez was detained for five days and charged with trying to assault a federal officer and interfere with their work — a case that went nowhere because he did no such things.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Instead, it appeared to interfere with a shared mechanism involved in muscle contraction.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
“I’m sorry, La. I don’t mean to keep pushing this, but I need to know with one hundred percent certainty that you understand the situation and that you will not interfere with the gold Flash.”
From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold
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If investors conclude for themselves that having a high concentration of individual stocks interferes with their goals, they might forgo this approach.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
They found that the molecule interferes with a signaling process involved in inositol phosphate metabolism, leading to lower levels of a molecule known as IP6.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
The Hobbs Act prohibits robbery that interferes with interstate or foreign commerce.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026
The antibody is designed to bind to proteins on the surface of the virus, which interferes with its ability to get inside human cells.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 11, 2026
“I’d be the kind of ghost that interferes with everything.”
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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Those green ecosystems are far different from California’s; our neighbor’s fires generally arise in massive boreal forests, which do not have debris or brush concerns because they’ve never been logged or otherwise interfered with.
From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026
The researchers also found that PCAIs interfered with several biological processes that cancer cells depend on for survival.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026
“Internal affairs of employers and labor organizations must not be interfered with except to the limited extent that correction is required in discrimination practices.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
The Civil Guard released a rare statement on Thursday evening denying that Gonzalez ever "participated in any operation against any Civil Guard unit" or "interfered in any investigation performed by" its officers.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Even the civil police interfered with them very little.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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MHC-1 contains many sites where arginine must be incorporated during production, so the researchers suspected that arginine scarcity was interfering with the process.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
In a novel full of insufferable characters interfering with romantic soulmates, Mary commits the sins of both pedantry and priggishness.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026
That is, he said, if he can stop the Chinese government from interfering.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Its satellites have been blamed for interfering with astronomical observations and posing an ever-increasing risk of space collisions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Johnny said he wasn’t interfering in his mother’s love life and he would bloody well work his way through community college, then.
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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