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"Through this theoretical framework, we found that we can use small physical boundaries up to ten meters to perturb ocean transport barriers that spans kilometers," said Fang.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 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

“We can perturb, we can manipulate, we can knock out every possible mouse or human gene,” Fu says.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 26, 2022

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

There are indeed magnetic anomaly stripes that go through Iceland, although the activity of the island's volcanoes perturbs those stripes, so they are hard to follow.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 20, 2020

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 instead of chilling his faith, the obstacle only generated that poet's philosophy of the "value of a lie" which perturbs the less experienced reader of Fifine.

From Robert Browning by C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford

Not that McIlroy seemed perturbed as the wind gusted beyond 30mph across the 7,440-yard track.

From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2026

I obviously was perturbed by it, but I acted like I wasn’t.

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

And he seemed, in the estimation of some around the team, unusually perturbed as public criticisms of his play started to mount.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025

It perturbed and perplexed her, but she could not turn away.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng

The last is especially perturbing to the family dog, Starbuck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

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

"It is clearly in humanity's interest to avoid perturbing Earth system to a degree that risks changing global environmental conditions so markedly," the authors wrote.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2023

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

We are perturbing our poor planet in serious and contradictory ways.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan