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as in chaos
a state in which everything is out of order
the general disorder of the room after the guests finally left the party
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as in disease
an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning
afflicted all her life with a nervous disorder
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as in to disrupt
to undo the proper order or arrangement of
be careful not to disorder the carefully arranged contents of the dresser
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Recent Examples of disorder
Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Additionally, people can develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which can include intrusive thoughts and nightmares.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2025
Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2024
Silent-majority voters, watching TV in their living rooms, saw a country that looked increasingly disordered, a perception that played into the Republicans’ hands.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Other potential issues include obsessive-compulsive disorder or seizure-like activity, both of which should be evaluated by a vet.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Additionally, people can develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which can include intrusive thoughts and nightmares.
—Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2025
Verb
Difficulty with emotional regulation is one possibility, but Caspi suspects the common thread is disordered thought: cognitive distortions that might take the form of delusions in psychosis, irrational fears in anxiety, knee-jerk negativity in depression, or intrusive thoughts in OCD.
—Ingrid Wickelgren, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2024
Silent-majority voters, watching TV in their living rooms, saw a country that looked increasingly disordered, a perception that played into the Republicans’ hands.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
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In many cases, pet dogs, cats and other animals have been lost in the chaos or were left behind during evacuations.—
Amanda Castro,
Newsweek,
13 Jan. 2025
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The answer gets tricky Jan. 10, 2025 Friday’s developments added to the sense of chaos surrounding the devastating wildfires, which have destroyed portions of Pacific Palisades and Malibu as well as Altadena, an unincorporated area outside the city of Los Angeles, killing at least 13 people.—
David Zahniser,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Jan. 2025
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Some people have trouble absorbing this vitamin due to disease, gastric surgery, or medication.—
Sohaib Imtiaz,
Verywell Health,
11 Jan. 2025
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This can lead to detrimental long-term health effects, such as triggering chronic conditions such as asthma as well as obstructive lung disease like bronchitis.—
Omer Awan,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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As the region grapples with the sheer number of homes and buildings destroyed, livelihoods disrupted and lives lost, its signature industry will face yet another setback in the loss of go-to filming spots, particularly in the Altadena area and Pacific Palisades.—
Samantha Masunaga,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2025
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Amyloid plaques accumulate between neurons, disrupting communication and leading to memory loss and cognitive decline, while tau tangles accumulate inside neurons, disrupting their normal function and leading to neuronal death.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
16 Jan. 2025
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Eoghan O’Connell’s role in both Shrewsbury goals was high on most culpability lists, as was a distinct lack of creativity in midfield and a failure to pose any kind of threat down the left side when Ryan Barnett was causing havoc down the opposite flank.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
The Athletic,
17 Jan. 2025
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Walker thinks people may now be more receptive to her message, given the devastating wildfires that have wrought havoc on Los Angeles itself the past week.—
Jocelyn Noveck,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Jan. 2025
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Especially in summer, heat illness has affected more than 30,000 people and caused hundreds of deaths in Florida.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Jan. 2025
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Interview ‘The Inexplicable Facets of Living in a Human Body’: An Interview with Emma Bolden Emma R. Cohen The author of The Tiger and the Cage on writing about her hysterectomy, the absurdities of medical metaphor, and the illness narratives that liberate and limit us.—
Max Ufberg,
hazlitt.net,
10 Jan. 2025
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Evans believes a lack of planning is largely to blame for our productivity failures, and warns people not to confuse being busy with being productive.—
Barnaby Lashbrooke,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
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Penn State’s receivers won’t be confused for an elite group, but tight end Tyler Warren is the top player in the country at that position, and the running back duo of Kaytron Allen and Nick Singleton is one of the nation’s best.—
Antonio Morales,
The Athletic,
9 Jan. 2025
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Kelly: Basically said the hostages need to be freed or there's going to be hell to pay.—
NPR,
NPR,
10 Jan. 2025
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The paintings in part evoked those horrors; many of them, hell scenes by Hieronymus Bosch included, made cryptic political comment on the cruelties of their day.—
Teju Cole,
The New Yorker,
10 Jan. 2025
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Summary Celery has been used throughout history as a folk medicine to relieve many ailments.—
Hannah Coakley, MSPH, RDN,
Verywell Health,
15 Jan. 2025
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Most common ailments aren’t connected to a single gene; polygenic risk scores aim to predict the lifetime likelihood of conditions, such as diabetes, in which many genes contribute to a person’s risk.—
Kristen V. Brown,
The Atlantic,
15 Jan. 2025
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