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
Using this epigenomic editing technology, the researchers can "perturb" candidate regions to see whether any tested genomic regions can impact downstream gene expression.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2023
“We can perturb, we can manipulate, we can knock out every possible mouse or human gene,” Fu says.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 26, 2022
"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
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
But I put aside this reflection as soon as may be; it perturbs me fruitlessly.
From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by George Gissing
“I’m a little perturbed, and I’m a little disappointed, because you have someone who is trying to work with industry, who is trying to get facts and data,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 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
His adversaries think he’ll crumple like yesterday’s broadsheet when they turn him away, and are perturbed to realize he’s more like the human equivalent of tissue hanging onto the heel of a shoe.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2025
Guilt pumped through my veins as his perturbed face read, Traitor.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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
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
Saturday’s dud fit a perturbing pattern for the Grizzlies: Talk big, then play small.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2023
We are perturbing our poor planet in serious and contradictory ways.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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