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Dementia is an umbrella term for cognitive decline severe enough to interfere with daily life.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Researchers designed this delay to interfere with the memory trace associated with the critical experience, potentially strengthening the intervention's effects.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026

"If visitors follow our advice and do not feed or interfere with the deer, it is highly unlikely that they will exhibit this type of behaviour."

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

Solicitor General D. John Sauer told the court the project is already 65% complete and argued that stopping construction would interfere with security improvements at the White House.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

European immigrants were also deemed poor candidates for slavery, not because of their race, but rather because they were in short supply and enslavement would, quite naturally, interfere with voluntary immigration to the new colonies.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

And both have their reasons for rejecting science that interferes with their own interests.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026

"Our work reveals how a lack of arginine interferes with the immune system, and suggests that upping arginine intake could prove beneficial," says first author Qiushuang Wu, a postdoc in the lab.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 3, 2026

If investors conclude for themselves that having a high concentration of individual stocks interferes with their goals, they might forgo this approach.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

If the weather interferes with your chances of seeing the Strawberry Moon tonight, do not worry as there are more opportunities to see full Moons this summer.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Many of the most distinguished research men in this field look with suspicion on any agent that damages the chromosomes, interferes with cell division, or causes mutations.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

But the new plan, issued in 2021, favored the ranchers, extending them 20-year leases, and allowed for the killing of elk if they interfered with cattle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026

Those green ecosystems are far different from California’s; our neighbor’s fires generally arise in massive boreal forests, which do not have debris or brush concerns because they’ve never been logged or otherwise interfered with.

From Slate ● Jul. 21, 2026

Those studies similarly found that disrupting sensory regions of the brain interfered with the ability to learn and retain new motor skills.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

“Internal affairs of employers and labor organizations must not be interfered with except to the limited extent that correction is required in discrimination practices.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

I think I could have done this—saved $800 to $1,000—at least if no car trouble or illness interfered with my budget.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

The broader effects of compound 10 suggest that interfering with GRK2 aggregation may influence more than Alzheimer's related processes.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

The veteran manager said that his former boss became increasingly interfering during his first spell at the club, including pushing for the signing of Andriy Shevchenko.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

This past weekend’s “CBS Sunday Morning” featured a segment from national security correspondent David Martin about the Department of Defense interfering with the editorial independence of Stars & Stripes, the military newspaper.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

In a novel full of insufferable characters interfering with romantic soulmates, Mary commits the sins of both pedantry and priggishness.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

That’s because minerals in unpurified water can attach to the metal surfaces and fuel rods in the reactor core, interfering with the carefully maintained reaction occurring inside.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland