perturb
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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
"This observation is different from previous models where boundaries were assumed to perturb the order," he continues.
From Science Daily • Sep. 29, 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 very act of trapping the atom can perturb it,” Ye says.
From Scientific American • Sep. 9, 2021
The storm, and the resulting minor earthquakes, did not perturb the meerkats in the least.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
Vocabulary lists containing perturb
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