disturb
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The quark can disturb the plasma and produce a wake, while the Z boson should pass through without significantly affecting the material around it.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026
In a one line order, Kagan, who is assigned to review emergency requests originating from California, declined to disturb that ruling.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Earning a first DP World Tour win in 14 years - and effectively saving his job by doing so - would be enough to disturb the composure of most golfers.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Despite the cold, there’s no radiation to worry about and only gentle 10 mph winds to disturb those dunes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
“Ah, I see you’ve come to work. I won’t disturb you,” he says, placing his trembling hand behind his back.
From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera
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“Like the anger disturbs my body so much that it makes me cry. No matter how much I tried to unplug from Carol, my body didn’t understand that I was pretending.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
But witnessing the book’s reception, it disturbs me how quickly we, as readers, have accepted one side of a complicated relationship: The husband is a monster, she is our sister.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Any attempt to intercept the quantum signals disturbs them, creating detectable errors that alert users to possible eavesdropping.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 17, 2026
Just like moving fingers under the running water from a tap can disrupt its steady flow, HIP 67522 b disturbs the star’s magnetic field as it orbits around its host star.
From Space Scoop ● Jul. 17, 2025
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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Halzen's great leap was to use ice instead -- unlike liquid water, it isn't disturbed by living creatures, and its darkness is constant at great depth.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Olah was disturbed after reading a copy of “Magnifica humanitas” and suggested pulling Anthropic out of the event, although he ultimately attended.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
They gently disturbed the entire atomic chain by changing the lasers at a particular frequency and then measured how strongly the atoms responded.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
It’s a quiet, contented life, “solid and safe,” Livia says, except that she remains disturbed by traumas from her youth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Bat peered into the pouch to see if Thor had been disturbed by the movement, but the kit was still fast asleep.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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Brian had written down the recipe, and, in his back shed, Michael, with the eventual assistance of Kasey, sets about following it into strange and disturbing territory.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
"What happened to Jane Doe in 2024 is deeply disturbing and will weigh heavily on our community for years to come."
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
The ads themselves, though, were not the most disturbing thing.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2026
We now have a disturbing glimpse of what that could mean for Americans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
He’d never told anyone about what he heard when he got near the trees, the disturbing things hoarded in his memory.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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