interfere
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"We ask that visitors respect the area and do not remove, disturb or interfere with any objects or features revealed by the low water levels," it said.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Katrín Pétursdóttir, chief executive officer of fish-oil-producer Lysi, worries that EU membership will interfere with Iceland’s carefully managed fish stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
And as he enters his senior season with professional football aspirations on the horizon, Iamaleava has learned to not let external voices interfere with his internal confidence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
Researchers designed this delay to interfere with the memory trace associated with the critical experience, potentially strengthening the intervention's effects.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
So terrified was I that some irregularity would interfere with enlistment—some unforeseen objection—I perhaps answered with too great an exactitude, too punctilious a range of detail—desperate for approbation.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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And both have their reasons for rejecting science that interferes with their own interests.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
"Our work reveals how a lack of arginine interferes with the immune system, and suggests that upping arginine intake could prove beneficial," says first author Qiushuang Wu, a postdoc in the lab.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
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
If the weather interferes with your chances of seeing the Strawberry Moon tonight, do not worry as there are more opportunities to see full Moons this summer.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Experiments show that the motility of bull sperm is decreased by dinitrophenol, which interferes with the energy- coupling mechanism with inevitable loss of energy.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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On Tuesday, China's foreign ministry said its cooperation with Iran has "always been conducted within the framework of international law and should not be interfered with or disrupted".
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Lin said: "Cooperation between China and Iran has always been conducted within the framework of international law and should not be interfered with or disrupted."
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
But the new plan, issued in 2021, favored the ranchers, extending them 20-year leases, and allowed for the killing of elk if they interfered with cattle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
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
Even the civil police interfered with them very little.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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The veteran manager said that his former boss became increasingly interfering during his first spell at the club, including pushing for the signing of Andriy Shevchenko.
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
Because cancer cells depend so heavily on these processes, interfering with them could make it more difficult for tumors to survive and continue evolving.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 2, 2026
“We have no interest in interfering with the U.S. elections and have never done so.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
This past weekend’s “CBS Sunday Morning” featured a segment from national security correspondent David Martin about the Department of Defense interfering with the editorial independence of Stars & Stripes, the military newspaper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
But he wasn’t just interfering with health care and speaking out against girls’ schools—he was also threatening barbers who offered so-called Western haircuts and destroying music stores.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
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