destabilize
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“Without relief, Defendants’ calculated campaign will continue to inflict fear, to destabilize SAL’s operations, and to cause further irreparable harm.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Malkovich and Sam Rockwell play veteran CIA operatives who, after helping destabilize Salvador Allende’s government in 1973 Chile, head to Easter Island on a more personal assignment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Repeated gravitational nudges from Jupiter can gradually destabilize asteroids in this region.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026
A collective exit can destabilize the system and create a scramble to balance power supply and demand.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
They might “build on public panic to further destabilize the system by disseminating rumors” and therefore “increase media coverage” and “stress the public health system.”
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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But that strategy has come into question as a warming planet destabilizes Himalayan glaciers and river systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
It spreads into South Sudan, it destabilizes South Sudan, it spreads into Chad, it’s got refugees in Egypt.
From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2025
Nick’s energized romantic do-si-do destabilizes the group, and gives them something new to gossip about and compare their own lives with as they wobble through the ensuing year.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025
This enzyme destabilizes the proteins in the milk – the proteins then aggregate together and make a gel.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2024
This process destabilizes the jet stream and changes storm tracks and wind patterns over the major sources of dust in West and South Asia.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024
Construction across mountains in South Asia is placing more workers in risky terrain that is being destabilized by warming temperatures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026
As someone who was a freelance writer for about a year, I can empathize with the desire to keep your life flexible while also feeling destabilized by the lack of structure.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
“We’re making it a reality that our schools are going to be very much more destabilized than they have been,” Griego said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
Their results indicate that about eight out of 10 planets around tight binary stars would be destabilized, and most of those would ultimately be destroyed.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026
I thought Ocean would wake up, dizzy and destabilized by this emotional train wreck to discover that it hadn’t been worth it, actually; that I hadn’t been worth it.
From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi
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“These attacks keep destabilizing the region, igniting further violence and undermining global energy security,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Unless you go through it, it can be difficult to understand how destabilizing a false positive can be.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
For her, it’s not just about someone who understands that rents are high or that groceries are expensive, but about a candidate who understands how destabilizing all those things can be.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
And this stoic performance comes despite a number of potentially destabilizing factors, including volatility in the oil market and in the technology sector.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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