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"You don't want your measurement to strongly perturb the material you're studying because it can become harder to tell whether you're seeing the material's natural behavior or behavior caused by the experiment," Marino says.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 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

Overall, there's nothing here that would perturb a consumer.

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025

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

From Scientific American ● Feb. 14, 2023

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

But I put aside this reflection as soon as may be; it perturbs me fruitlessly. 

From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing

Investors don’t appear to be perturbed by the prospect of tighter monetary policy, they say, citing that holdings in gold exchange-traded funds have risen in recent sessions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

But some do remain perturbed, including another teenager in the Scottish borders, 16-year-old Ellie, who says: "I was so scared of him when I was little," Ellie confides.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

Whenever grief has perturbed him, Caballero has processed it through creativity.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

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

They regarded civil disobedience not as a form of protest but as a crime, and were perturbed by the growing partnership between Africans and Indians.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

That people are so susceptible to what they read, watch and listen to online is perturbing enough as it is.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 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

We now show that perturbing the water layer around the protein, even very slightly, has dramatic effects on collagen assembly.'

From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2024

This is because the smoke has disrupted this dynamic growth pattern, as opposed to just perturbing a more stable system like an adult.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2023

But we have also been perturbing the climate in the opposite sense.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan