interfere
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Albanese advises Bowen not to keep his phone next to his heart because "it can interfere with your rhythm".
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
Puttnam, who has been involved with the school for over 50 years, said it was a "lovely job" to have and that he had tried never to interfere.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
The results showed that the Alzheimer's-associated mutations could interfere with normal nerve-to-muscle function.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 10, 2026
Inflammation linked to cancer and its treatments may interfere with glutamate signaling, an important part of communication between nerve cells.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
But the former president didn’t complain; he wasn’t going to interfere if it was everyone else’s best chance for survival.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
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If an enemy successfully interferes with the transmission of this information, it can cause problems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026
Disabling this protein increases fat consumption and interferes with the formation of new fat cells, raising the possibility of a different approach to treating obesity.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
Soto-Martínez’s office said enforcement under the city ordinance interferes with efforts to move unhoused residents into housing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
That tort takes place when a person intentionally interferes with another person’s lawful possession of movable personal property.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Like the dinitros, it interferes, often fatally, with the body’s source of energy, so that the affected organism almost literally burns itself up.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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These structural changes interfered with the interactions between immune cells that are necessary to activate T cells.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
One Nation's Victorian leader Warren Pickering claimed the attack happened after the pair "interfered with" election signs on the volunteer's property.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
The men behind Gatalog and its sister site, CtrlPew, went to federal court in Orlando, Fla., to try to block that assertion, saying California’s suit interfered with their constitutional rights.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026
A fan clad in a midnight-blue Yankees jacket had reached over the wall and interfered with the play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Even the civil police interfered with them very little.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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This process attaches a chemical group called a nitro group to particular locations on a protein, potentially changing its structure and interfering with its normal activity.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 4, 2026
By interfering with these signals, obakulactone reduced inflammation and fibrosis, a process involving excessive buildup of scar-like connective tissue, in rheumatoid arthritis synovial fibroblasts.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
The spokesperson did not clarify whether Essayli was accusing Gonzalez of interfering with Saturday’s operation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
“We’re interfering with the cell’s recycling machinery that’s important in all of our healthy cells,” said Dr. Julie Gralow, chief medical officer of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Remarkably, the phenomenon was proved in 1997 when physicists at the University of Geneva sent photons seven miles in opposite directions and demonstrated that interfering with one provoked an instantaneous response in the other.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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