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disorder

[dis-awr-der] / dɪsˈɔr dər /






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And for people with certain medical histories, like having an eating disorder, being pregnant or taking a SGLT2 inhibitor, fasting isn’t a good idea.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

The disorder affects approximately 1 in 4,000 people, but these brothers represented the first known documented feline cases.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Her focus on “quality of life” policing and other modern methods are a major reason the city has less disorder and falling crime rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The abnormal deposits, called Rosenthal fibers, are a defining characteristic of the disorder.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

By analyzing families that possessed intergenerational histories of mental illness, the study found striking evidence that bipolar disorder and schizophrenia shared a strong genetic link.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The therapy, which brought in $17.6 billion last year, is widely prescribed for patients with autoimmune disorders like inflammatory bowel disease and Crohn’s disease.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

They will also be held directly responsible for protecting under-18s from pornography, online bullying, content that glorifies crime, and content that encourages eating disorders.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Lactose intolerance is also often confused with disorders of the gut-brain interaction, says Shaukat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

Although the device has demonstrated promising results in early testing, its ability to relieve chronic pain or improve movement disorders in human patients has not yet been established.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

And thus, from the ambitions of the priests are born the disorders and the quarrels among the barons.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

Bossy’s direction raises the clamorous volume instead of sorting out the disordered structure or digging into the unexamined silences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Rather than understanding dissociation as a symptom of disordered eating, researchers increasingly consider how it may both emerge from and help maintain these patterns.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Dr Neil Stanley, sleep expert and author of the book How to Sleep Well, argues that gamifying sleep is creating more disordered sleeping.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Light can be disordered in one characteristic, such as the directions in which it travels, while still creating photons that are entangled through another characteristic, such as polarization.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

On the other hand, there are a very large number of arrangements in which the pieces are disordered and don’t make a picture.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking

The researchers then expose the cilia to a damped, alternating magnetic field which has the effect of disordering the magnetization of the microparticles.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024

The economic and social troubles of 1993 rippled through my community, as these things do, disordering the trajectories of lives and industries to the ruin of some.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021

Could this disordering of locality serve to explain the quantum nonlocality inherent in entangled particles?

From Scientific American ● Apr. 4, 2019

Furthermore, disordering the ligand distribution drastically increases adhesion growth, but reduces the rigidity threshold for adhesion collapse.

From Nature ● Dec. 5, 2017

But the vapour of a limekiln would come between me and them, disordering them all, and it was through the vapour at last that I saw two men looking at me.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens


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