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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

A deficiency can perturb the proper formation of those circuits, Eyles and his colleagues have found.

From Scientific American ● Mar. 13, 2023

"There was no physical violence or rise in thefts, but they perturb people who are from here," he says, adding: "From now on it's zero tolerance."

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2022

The storm, and the resulting minor earth­quakes, did not perturb the meerkats in the least.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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

Our moon perturbs at first sight nothing, and accordingly its mass is not even yet known with exactness.

From Pioneers of Science by Sir Oliver Lodge

"I wouldn't say angry. I was a little bit perturbed at his constantly fighting with Lebanon, you know."

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

Loznitsa includes multiple terse scenes of Kornev walking up endless stairs or waiting for a perturbed guard to unlock a door that will lead him to another door that also requires a key.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026

So my advice to people during these times is just do your job and show they were wrong and act like you’re unperturbed by it even though you are perturbed by it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 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

When he first arrived, he was perturbed by having to preach in the corridor, which he found inimical to the contemplation of God.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

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

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

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng