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interfering

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verb

present participle of interfere

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Recent Examples of interfering
Verb
The method could extend to electromagnetic waves for improving radar and telecommunication systems to prevent unwanted reflections from interfering and causing signal losses. Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 21 Dec. 2024 One of my personal favorite characters is Liz, Jimmy and Alice’s interfering neighbor. Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov rejected accusations that Moscow is interfering in Moldova’s political process. Christian Edwards, CNN, 18 Oct. 2024 The researchers used nanoparticles containing small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) that, when swallowed, are delivered to the small intestine. New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2024 These nanoparticles, tiny capsules made from a polymer core and encased in a protective shell, were specifically designed to carry small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) to the small intestine. Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2024 The technology is particularly well-suited to drugs incorporating siRNA (small interfering RNA) molecules. Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2024 Joyce Antler, also a historian of American Judaism, has written specifically about stereotypes of Jewish mothers as meddlesome, interfering, overbearing and over-involved. Samira Mehta, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024 If that turns out to be true, some unseen actor must be interfering in the decay—potentially a new particle or force previously unidentified in nature. Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for interfering
Adjective
  • What is the key to successfully managing you busy daily schedule?
    Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 22 Jan. 2025
  • So far, the restaurants have been busy, Tanha said, adding that the brand’s hope is to lure locals as well as tourists.
    Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 22 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • Carter first saw the disease up close in 1988 while visiting a village in Ghana where nearly 350 people had worms poking through their skin.
    Sam Mednick, Chicago Tribune, 30 Dec. 2024
  • At its most basic, a poke cake is made by poking holes into a warm cake and pouring on a frosting or filling mixture.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • In the wake of Monday night’s crushing overtime loss to the Detroit Pistons, Herro was asked in the intervening days about his chances for an All-Star breakthrough in this sixth Miami Heat season.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 21 Dec. 2024
  • In the intervening decades, though, the surviving members have seen their statement get chopped and screwed into morsels, divorced from its context.
    Jazmine Hughes, Them, 20 Dec. 2024

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