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

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 news didn’t perturb him as much as excite his curiosity.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy