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equilibrium

[ee-kwuh-lib-ree-uhm, ek-wuh-] / ˌi kwəˈlɪb ri əm, ˌɛk wə- /


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As strange, inexplicable happenings begin to disrupt the recording session—a mysteriously opening door, a sudden appearance of a menacing masked figure in the booth—Lucas begins to lose his emotional equilibrium.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

While television helped undermine reading, Mr. Marriott writes, “the culture of print could probably have reached some kind of equilibrium with TV.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

The best way to illustrate this equilibrium is with annuity payout rates — how much monthly income you could purchase with a given amount of money.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

"The old days are not coming back. We need to form a new equilibrium, and the only way we can do it is that if we actually join forces," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Accordingly, senior staff were reluctant to disturb what appeared to be Ossining’s equilibrium.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

“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

By the preservation in successive generations of those whose moving equilibria are less at variance with the requirements, there is produced a changed equilibrium completely in harmony with the requirements.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents by John Lord

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

By means of equilibriums all things in both worlds are preserved; without this all things would perish.

From Spiritual Life and the Word of God by Emanuel Swedenborg


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