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disorder

[dis-awr-der] / dɪsˈɔr dər /






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For eight hours, demonstrations and gatherings were banned in an effort to avoid a third consecutive day of disorder.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Decades later, while incarcerated in Florida, he was finally diagnosed with service-connected post-traumatic stress disorder from his experience.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

It follows disorder last month when students began protesting over school conditions.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

Joel canceled concerts in May 2025 after revealing two months before that he had a brain disorder known as normal pressure hydrocephalus, or NPH, which causes physical and mental issues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

“If the disorder should continue to spread among them,” a very gloomy Benjamin Rush commented, “then will the measure of our suffering be full.”

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

The researchers believe the similarities between Freud's ideas and modern neuroscience could offer valuable insights into mental health disorders, particularly those involving deeply established patterns of thinking and behavior.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026

“You Can See Everything” isn’t so much about big, jaw-dropping revelations as it is about the people behind them, and the assortment of personality and/or neurodevelopmental disorders fueling their actions.

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

Such approaches could eventually prove useful for people with sleep disturbances related to metabolic disorders or neurological diseases.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

The therapy, which brought in $17.6 billion last year, is widely prescribed for patients with autoimmune disorders like inflammatory bowel disease and Crohn’s disease.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

And thus, from the ambitions of the priests are born the disorders and the quarrels among the barons.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

Bossy’s direction raises the clamorous volume instead of sorting out the disordered structure or digging into the unexamined silences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Rather than understanding dissociation as a symptom of disordered eating, researchers increasingly consider how it may both emerge from and help maintain these patterns.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

Dr Neil Stanley, sleep expert and author of the book How to Sleep Well, argues that gamifying sleep is creating more disordered sleeping.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Light can be disordered in one characteristic, such as the directions in which it travels, while still creating photons that are entangled through another characteristic, such as polarization.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

Entropy is a way of measuring just how disordered that state is and of determining the likelihood of particular outcomes with further shuffles.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

The researchers then expose the cilia to a damped, alternating magnetic field which has the effect of disordering the magnetization of the microparticles.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024

The economic and social troubles of 1993 rippled through my community, as these things do, disordering the trajectories of lives and industries to the ruin of some.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2021

But there will be many pairs of events that are causally related, that will end up far from each other—thus disordering space and locality.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 4, 2019

Furthermore, disordering the ligand distribution drastically increases adhesion growth, but reduces the rigidity threshold for adhesion collapse.

From Nature ● Dec. 5, 2017

But the vapour of a limekiln would come between me and them, disordering them all, and it was through the vapour at last that I saw two men looking at me.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens


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