disorder
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Violence in any form is completely unacceptable and anyone who is found to be involved in this disorder will be dealt as we will not accept this behaviour in our communities.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
More than 170 people with post-traumatic stress disorder and frequent, severe nightmares took part.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
There might be coaches who could help with issues like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or therapists she could talk to about her mental health.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Most scientists today view it as a neurodevelopmental disorder, and clinicians debate whether the protean manifestations of schizophrenia are all part of a discrete biological phenomenon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Aureliano had no difficulty in rescuing the five books that he was looking for from that fabulous disorder, because they were exactly where Melquíades had told him they would be.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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He said it "allows us to dream of exciting possibilities for tackling humanity's greatest challenges" such as developing phages to tackle disease, enzymes to treat genetic disorders and antibodies that could be used in immunotherapy.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
Romanticizing extreme thinness contributes to eating disorders, which can do serious damage to the health of sufferers.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026
The same problem affects research into many other neurological diseases and neurodevelopmental disorders.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026
Assigning yourself the heavy duty of curing all disorders, however, strikes me as even more hubristic than comparing oneself to Jesus Christ.
From Slate ● Jul. 31, 2026
"Urtica dioica. Effective in treating kidney disorders, hemorrhages, and gout."
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
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As a psychiatrist, he was mindful of the whole person who was suffering—not merely a disordered brain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Like all grieving, it is complicated and disordered, and beautifully so.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
Gallium is also valuable because it can dissolve other metals, making it useful for producing liquid metal catalysts and `self-assembling structures,' in which disordered materials spontaneously organize themselves into ordered forms.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026
His financial accounts became more and more disordered, according to the court documents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
I heard a Scream, which was John, still disordered with Pain.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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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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