equilibrium
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More important, unemployment has been hovering in the 4.1% to 4.4% range for more than two years, making that look like an equilibrium position for the labor market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
"An unstable and potentially dangerous equilibrium," is how the situation was described in closed-door remarks by a senior UN official at a recent international gathering.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
All-in-all, the labor market remains “OK,” with the same low-hire, low-fire equilibrium in place, he noted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 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
Your forbearance in this matter shall be a testimony to the equilibrium of your temperament, and provide us with yet another example of the amplitude of your generosity.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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 this definition, homogeneous equilibria take place in solutions.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
The equilibria of these modifications may be readily represented on a pressure-temperature diagram.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
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
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
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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