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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

Because it's so vast, and so poorly understood, Prof Schmidt added, "the worry is that we'll start destroying those ecosystems - and perturb all these vital processes - that we really don't understand".

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2021

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

There are indeed magnetic anomaly stripes that go through Iceland, although the activity of the island's volcanoes perturbs those stripes, so they are hard to follow.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 20, 2020

It is where Snyder and his closest companions retreat when the game perturbs him, when his intensity boils over.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2016

There are several distinct constituent rings in the entire Saturnian zone, and each perturbs the other, with the result that they ripple and pulse in concord.

From Pioneers of Science by Sir Oliver Lodge

But some do remain perturbed, including another teenager in the Scottish borders, 16-year-old Ellie, who says: "I was so scared of him when I was little," Ellie confides.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

He said he was not perturbed by the stock drop, noting that Facebook fell under $18 a share just months after its May 2012 IPO closed at $38 a share.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 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

Even the roughnecks are looking hungry and perturbed.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

The last is especially perturbing to the family dog, Starbuck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

And though it’s also perturbing, it’s nice to watch something where even the darkness isn’t synthetic.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2025

Changes in the spin state can be observed by shining a laser through the material to see how many defects are "on" or "off" after perturbing them.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2023

This is because the smoke has disrupted this dynamic growth pattern, as opposed to just perturbing a more stable system like an adult.

From Slate ● Jun. 8, 2023

We are perturbing our poor planet in serious and contradictory ways.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan