equilibrium
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“Markets can’t find equilibrium on a binary event, so someone may be hedging. I just think the odds of a hike are very low.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
But as others improved on his time, the mile record eventually settled at a kind of equilibrium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
"Suddenly when they're out of the ground, they're out of equilibrium, and that normally means they start to decay, fall apart."
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 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
Something to do with balance and equilibrium affecting my spatial orientation.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
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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
You may wish to review the chapter on acid-base equilibria.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
It may help the exposition if we throw the argument, briefly, into terms of the more familiar mechanical analogies, and speak of the equilibria and transformations of social forces.
From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)
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
Nash equilibriums, which he described in the hieroglyphics of mathematical symbols, exist everywhere.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2015
In economics, this expectation culminated in the “discovery” that markets move naturally toward stable equilibriums.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2012
Whatever equilibriums our finite experiences attain to are but provisional.
From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William
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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