equilibrium
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"An unstable and potentially dangerous equilibrium," is how the situation was described in closed-door remarks by a senior UN official at a recent international gathering.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
A couple of weeks ago, Hoisington concluded that equilibrium U.S. inflation is migrating up toward 3.5% to 4.5%, and that both inflation and long-term Treasury yields will trend higher.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
In the Dakota Territory, the future president regained his physical strength and emotional equilibrium, while he deepened his rapport with ordinary Americans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
He swears by the practice, saying it’s kept his bowel movements regular and his emotional state at an equilibrium.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Without Susie, whatever has been keeping us in equilibrium is gone.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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Multiple equilibria are possible in a game like this.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Such properties include a wide variety of measurable traits such as phase equilibria, density, or heat capacity, for example, that characterize physical systems and determine how chemical processes work.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024
"For fundamental research into the dynamics of nutrients and other equilibria in tidal areas, it is very important to understand the role of temperature, salinity, benthic animals and also turmoil by storms."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024
Knowledge of the quantitative aspects of these equilibria is required to compute a dosage amount that will solicit the desired therapeutic effect.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Hence a theory of money like the quantity theory, concerned with "long run tendencies" and "normal equilibria" and "static adjustments" touches the real problem of the value of money not at all.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
Recent efforts in de-extinction have focused on the Tasmanian tiger, as its natural habitat in Tasmania is still mostly preserved, and its reintroduction could help recovering past ecosystem equilibriums lost after its final disappearance.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2023
Engineers and architects strive to achieve extremely stable equilibriums for buildings and other systems that must withstand wind, earthquakes, and other forces that displace them from equilibrium.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Mr. Varoufakis agreed that in the Greece example, “the game has multiple equilibriums and, therefore, a failure to agree may trigger a chain of outcomes that no one can either predict or control.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2015
Nash equilibriums, which he described in the hieroglyphics of mathematical symbols, exist everywhere.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2015
Mr. Spokesly might be a man of inferior calibre, easily swayed by the prospect of easy money, but his mind swung naturally to the equilibriums of respectability.
From Command by William McFee
Vocabulary lists containing equilibrium
Force and Motion (Mechanics) - Middle School
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Force and Motion (Mechanics) - Introductory
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Chemistry - Introductory
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