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
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
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