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
While these pathways normally support tumor growth, excessive activation can destabilize normal cellular functions and ultimately lead to cell death.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026
That means that a bust could destabilize the financial system, particularly since it could spread to firms that build data centers and supply hardware.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
California’s budget experts have warned that maintaining full Medi-Cal coverage for immigrants without seeking additional revenue would destabilize the state’s long-term fiscal outlook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 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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Now, the future of that strategy is in question as a warming planet destabilizes Himalayan glaciers—putting human lives and billions of dollars at risk, report Niharika Mandhana, Krishna Pokharel and Tripti Lahiri.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 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
When the new actin subunit arrives, its incorporation onto the filament destabilizes the formin arrangement and requires the stable half-ring to step onto the new subunit and become loose, while the other half-ring becomes stable.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
The heat destabilizes the emulsion and the separate oil and water phases will reform.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2024
Customers who feel destabilized financially by tariffs and global conflict have used the stores to try to find lower prices.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 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
Even if the active fighting ends within weeks, the deeper concern is whether a destabilized Iran becomes a permanent source of risk on Dubai’s doorstep.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
Surging energy prices destabilized stocks trading in Asia and Europe on Monday.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 2, 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
It’s a confounding and destabilizing experience for overachieving women used to being on top of every detail.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 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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