instability
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Tiny differences in temperature, humidity, wind and atmospheric instability can determine whether a storm forms at all or where it moves.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Amid ongoing instability, any new natural-uranium reactor would risk radioactive hazards or diversion of material into the wrong hands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Aggressive expansions typically come with plenty of risk: an immediate strain on resources, profit instability, and possibly outgrowing the existing business model.
From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2026
It demeans the entire nation, and adds to the instability in the world.
From Salon ● Aug. 21, 2026
The aim was to create a communications system that would go across multiple networks, making it less vulnerable to attack or instability.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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The researchers believe these swirling flows are evidence of Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, a familiar phenomenon in fluid dynamics.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
When applied to cosmic scales, this suggests that plasma instabilities alone are too weak to account for the missing gamma rays.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2025
The researchers also demonstrated that they could use the ring-shaped beam to drill deeper into the material without causing instabilities in the process.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024
However, the high-confinement mode has historically come hand-in-hand with instabilities at the plasma's edge, a challenge that has required fusion researchers to find creative workarounds.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024
Except these classical psychiatric illnesses, there are illnesses produced by dynamical and transitory instabilities of the brain.
From The Brain, A Decoded Enigma by Dorin Teodor Moisa
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