perturbs
- present tense form of perturb (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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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
He’s become an itinerant street performer who rivets and perturbs spectators with his uncanny ability to reproduce the physical appearance of anyone in his audience.
From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 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
But now it may be asked, surely the moon perturbs the earth, swinging it round their common centre of gravity, and really describing its own orbit about this point instead of about the earth's centre?
From Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir
