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disorder

[dis-awr-der] / dɪsˈɔr dər /






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We are here because one spring day in May, Joshua Fox, a 31-year-old Black disabled veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder and a checkered past, stood up and stress-tested Eatherly’s business model.

From Slate Aug. 20, 2026

Cage plays Roy, a gifted con artist with obsessive-compulsive disorder whose tics, phobias and elaborate rituals have turned his immaculate home into a fortress against the world.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

The entrepreneur was first diagnosed with the movement disorder in 2014.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

According to the NHS,, external bipolar disorder is a mental health condition where you have extreme mood changes.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

With its leader dead, the army scattered in disorder and the way to the sea lay open to the heroes.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The scientists hope this will help shed light on how a range of disorders such as autism and schizophrenia first emerge and then progress later in life.

From Barron's Aug. 19, 2026

During one of his initial court appearances in 2018, Atkins told a judge that he had been diagnosed with “bipolar disorder and a list of other disorders as well.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2026

Last year, she uploaded Oliver’s picture into Face2Gene, an AI-assisted app designed for healthcare professionals that uses facial analysis to flag rare genetic disorders.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 15, 2026

Fedorenko's group found a way around that obstacle by working with Rosemary Varley, a neuroscientist at University College London who studies acquired language disorders, and her team.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

“Can’t say. But there’s no use in trying to pin disease names on this. Human disorders apply to robots only as romantic analogies. They’re no help to robotic engineering.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

"Treating the light classically makes it much easier to define which part of the energy can be used to perform work and which part is disordered heat," says Janovitch.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

With a major career milestone within her reach and increased appearances in front of the camera, the sudden pressures on Maddie trigger long-hidden patterns of disordered eating: bingeing and purging, secrets and lies.

From Salon Aug. 8, 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

Like all grieving, it is complicated and disordered, and beautifully so.

From Salon Jul. 24, 2026

Shuffle the cards and you put them in a disordered state.

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

Could this disordering of locality serve to explain the quantum nonlocality inherent in entangled particles?

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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