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Olivero says climate change perturbations continue to concern the winery.—
Michelle Williams,
Forbes,
21 Feb. 2025 -
However, as the comet recedes from the sun, planetary perturbations will make the orbit even more elongated, so the next return to perihelion (of whatever of it is that is still left of it) will be about 600,000 years hence.—
Joe Rao,
Space.com,
27 Jan. 2025
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As for the backlash from other family members, Hughes says the OP shouldn't take responsibility for their discomfort.—
William Lambers,
Newsweek,
7 Mar. 2025
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In a sport where losses far outnumber wins, success requires learning to embrace discomfort and grow stronger from each challenge.—
Samantha Bergin,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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The lawsuit alleged battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence and loss of consortium, which allows for recovery of damages for relationships that are mutually dependent.—
Winston Cho,
The Hollywood Reporter,
4 Mar. 2025
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At Yosemite, a group of protesters also hung a 30-by-50-foot U.S. flag upside down—historically a symbol of dire distress—off the side of El Capitan, the park’s iconic sheer cliff face, on February 22 to raise awareness about the administration’s cuts.—
Bailey Berg,
AFAR Media,
4 Mar. 2025
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Social practice art in Latin America existed mainly through the efforts of small, noncommercial, artist-run initiatives within the fractious context of political agitation and protest.—
Fabiola Iza,
Artforum,
1 Mar. 2025
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Aster hopes the new seismic stations will reveal why the lava lake can shift from agitation to years of quiet and why, in earlier times, Erebus erupted more violently.—
ByPaul Voosen,
science.org,
3 Dec. 2024
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However, the romantic narrative is punctuated by subtle moments of unease, each barely perceptible on its own but which, taken together, build into something rather more sinister.—
Stephanie Hirschmiller,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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More than a year later, the campus remains in a state of bewildered unease.—
Nathan Heller,
The New Yorker,
3 Mar. 2025
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Everywhere, Ryback says, the cartoonists and editorialists delighted in Hitler’s discomfiture.—
Adam Gopnik,
The New Yorker,
18 Mar. 2024
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Back in the States, Frankie suffers from terrifying episodes of PTSD, from society’s refusal to believe that women served in the conflict and from her own parents’ discomfiture over her service.—
Katherine A. Powers,
Washington Post,
9 Mar. 2024
Noun
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Drinks Limit liquids at least one to two hours before bed to prevent sleep disturbances.—
Lauren Panoff, MPH, RD,
Verywell Health,
28 Feb. 2025
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Over time, this can lead to constant fatigue, loss of motivation and even physical symptoms like headaches or sleep disturbances.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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Some characters, like Tina, make other characters sense something unusual and simultaneously doubt their interpretations—such characters often bring an interesting air of disquiet to a story.—
Cressida Leyshon,
The New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2025
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But this apparent calm masks major sources of disquiet.—
Paul Staniland,
Foreign Affairs,
4 Jan. 2019
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