disturbance
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"Sea mines and other explosive devices can cause acoustic disturbance impacting sea mammals and other animals, and blast damage to natural undersea structures such as reefs," Weir said.
From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026
Hyphen says it is doing all it can to minimise disturbance of crucial ecosystems, avoiding the most sensitive sites and leaving the smallest possible footprint.
From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026
This disturbance relaxes the usual Raman selection rules and produces distinctive low-frequency Raman scattering.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026
It was in November that a disturbance first knocked cold air southward and “sent weather patterns into a tailspin this season,” meteorologist Ben Noll wrote to me in an email.
From Slate • Feb. 25, 2026
As I stood in this state of indecision, there was a dry crack of wood and a careless disturbance of undergrowth perhaps fifty feet into the woods—something good-sized and unseen.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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