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disorder

[dis-awr-der] / dɪsˈɔr dər /






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The study evaluated the effects of Vyvgart in subcutaneous formulation in adults with moderate-to-severe Sjogren’s disease, a chronic autoimmune disorder that can cause symptoms including dry eyes and mouth, fatigue and joint pain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Claire Brosseau, a woman with treatment resistant bipolar 1 disorder who is part of the federal case challenging Canada's current laws, told the BBC earlier this year that euthanasia would offer her "a safe death".

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026

Their application argues that the decision by the Parades Commission -- the independent body regulating contentious marches -- misrepresented police evidence about the risk of disorder.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

All had either a blood disorder with the potential to become cancerous or a low-risk form of blood cancer.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026

The director took in the disorder of the room and his eyebrows furrowed together.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

OpenAI announced ChatGPT for Teens in August, promising “stronger built-in safety protections” for users under 18, including limits on discussions around suicide, eating disorders, violence and sexual content.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

They have also been able to reveal neural circuits governing specific memories, feelings and behaviors relevant for neurological and psychiatric disorders.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The mental-health toll was more severe, with women living roughly 3.7 fewer years free of mental disorders, and men living about 5.8 fewer years without such problems, the study found.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026

Mia said: "It's all very well saying 'oh, it's AI, it's not real,' But eating disorders don't really listen to rationality."

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

"Urtica dioica. Effective in treating kidney disorders, hemorrhages, and gout."

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

"Treating the light classically makes it much easier to define which part of the energy can be used to perform work and which part is disordered heat," says Janovitch.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

When Sissy came into the kitchen, Katie looked at Sissy’s disordered clothing with swollen and suspicious eyes.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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

But there will be many pairs of events that are causally related, that will end up far from each other—thus disordering space and locality.

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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