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"This technology lets us perturb hundreds to thousands of genes in parallel and then measure the detailed molecular changes in each individual cell," says Cao.

From Science Daily ● May 21, 2026

Some possible treatments have looked to block the origin of the itch to relieve the sensation, Gualdani said, “but it seems if we perturb this pathway, we also perturb eventual itch relief.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026

Maybe overactive immune cells continue to perturb the nervous system and nearby blood vessels.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 14, 2023

Because it's so vast, and so poorly understood, Prof Schmidt added, "the worry is that we'll start destroying those ecosystems - and perturb all these vital processes - that we really don't understand".

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2021

The news didn’t perturb him as much as excite his curiosity.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

The main problem with room temperature is thermal noise, which perturbs delicate quantum dynamics.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024

Perhaps this marks the beginning of a pop culture reconsideration of America’s role in the war, adding nuance that perturbs the accepted heroic narrative.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2022

Alade Adeleke: It perturbs the coastal ecosystem, the water system changes, the fisheries is affected.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 17, 2021

In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fictional West Egg, Nick Carraway’s “ragged lawn” so perturbs Jay Gatsby that he sends his own gardener to tame it.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2019

Others relate that loadstone perturbs the mind and makes folk melancholick, and mostly kills.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

“I’m a little perturbed, and I’m a little disappointed, because you have someone who is trying to work with industry, who is trying to get facts and data,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2026

“I can’t even believe it,” a visibly perturbed Putin said on camera.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

More curiously, even though U.S. high-yield spreads are at post-1998 lows, few investors seemed to be unduly perturbed here.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 18, 2025

His adversaries think he’ll crumple like yesterday’s broadsheet when they turn him away, and are perturbed to realize he’s more like the human equivalent of tissue hanging onto the heel of a shoe.

From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025

The king cast a perturbed glance in my direction, and I realized he had forgotten his line.

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

I was especially struck by an extremely perturbing exchange between the two, about what appears to be Summers’ embattled pursuit of a woman.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2025

“It’s perturbing and upsetting,” said Mark Bookbinder, a 68-year-old engineer who lives in Cincinnati.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

And though it’s also perturbing, it’s nice to watch something where even the darkness isn’t synthetic.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2025

By combining this data with gene expression analysis and the known effects of perturbing specific genes, scientists have ascribed functions to such chromatin marks.

From Science Daily ● May 9, 2024

Like the photograph of the spider-dancer, Mrs. Richardson found this perturbing but strangely compelling.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng