equilibrium
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Fundamentally, Iran, interest rates, oil and other uncertainties are upsetting market equilibrium.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 23, 2026
According to the researchers, the problem is that Hawking's approach works only when a black hole is in equilibrium.
From Science Daily ● 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
The previous political-economy equilibrium regarding Social Security is expiring, and a new one will have to be found.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
It takes only the smallest of changes to shatter an epidemic’s equilibrium.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
A phase diagram combines plots of pressure versus temperature for the liquid-gas, solid-liquid, and solid-gas phase-transition equilibria of a substance.
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 Anderson, Benjamin M.
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
With its limit-pushing positional extremes, McGregor’s ballet vocabulary is often likened to that of William Forsythe — undoubtedly an influence, particularly in the hand grips and precarious equilibriums of the partnering work.
From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 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
Nash equilibriums, which he described in the hieroglyphics of mathematical symbols, exist everywhere.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2015
The little equilibriums of diplomacy interested him also, and the watching of men immediately under his eye in the Parliament.
From The French Revolution by Belloc, Hilaire
Vocabulary lists containing equilibrium
Force and Motion (Mechanics) - Middle School
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