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
"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
“The balance between men and women is becoming more of an equilibrium, so all that speaks to opportunity around storytelling for different audiences.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
I tried to find Audrey, to focus on her and regain my equilibrium, but the crowd had swallowed her up.
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
Physical changes, such as phase transitions, are also reversible and may establish equilibria.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
As these traditions and habits of a community may change, so may the legal values change, and new equilibria need to be reached in a process of readjustment.
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
All the attractions, repulsions and equilibriums among natural objects are modes of expression of the force of intelligence.
From Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy by John Andreas Widtsoe
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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