disturbance
Example Sentences
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The rate at which trees die off in a forest can vary in response to different types of disturbances, or as forests grow thicker and there is greater competition for resources.
From Barron's
"These are extreme disturbances within the system, and it has not yet been investigated whether the glacial system can absorb this amount of water and is able to influence the drainage itself."
From Science Daily
Over the next century, more than 20 such disturbances broke out across the U.S.—in Baltimore, Cleveland, St. Louis and elsewhere—as demand for doctors, and cadavers, spiked in the quickly growing nation.
Scientists think that low-mass rogue planets are born around stars and later forced out of their orbits by gravitational disturbances, such as close encounters with other planets or unstable stellar companions.
From Science Daily
These episodes caused mood disturbances that lasted more than six months.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
