equilibrium
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This is because a rough equilibrium exists between the stock market, interest rates and the cost of acquiring a guaranteed lifetime income.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
“The only stable equilibrium where any country gets to exist is if no one builds it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
"Today, something in that fragile equilibrium was broken forever."
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
"It's whether they have enough resilience to return to equilibrium afterwards."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
Nothing tested my inner equilibrium as much as the time that Winnie was in solitary confinement.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
“These two equilibria are self-fulfilling. As soon as a critical mass of bondholders believe they are in a given equilibria their behavior assures that they are!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
Such equilibria can only be maintained for a moment.
From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Hereward Carrington
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
Yet one of Dr. Nash’s critical insights is that there may be many possible outcomes — so-called Nash equilibriums — that produce suboptimal results.
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
These are the two general equilibriums that are unceasingly maintained by the Lord.
From Heaven and its Wonders and Hell by John Ager
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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