disturb
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Qubits can be extremely sensitive to changes in their external environment that disturb their superpositioned state and introduce errors into a calculation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
In agreeing to hear the pair of cases, the justices did not disturb the lower court rulings that blocked the repeals for now.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
Under the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017, it is an offence to deliberately capture, injure, kill or disturb beavers, or damage or destroy their breeding or resting places, without a licence.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026
“Soaring oil prices are likely to disturb that calm, sending the yield higher,” he says.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 9, 2026
If I found a nest of nightingale eggs or chicks, I was not to disturb it or the mother would abandon her roost and the chicks would die.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing disturb
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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