instability
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Adobe stock drops Monday after receiving a double downgrade from Wells Fargo, which cited worsening organic growth, executive instability, and a loss in pricing power.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Despite this conflict - and growing instability across the wider region - migrants still cross the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to Yemen driven by poverty, insecurity and the growing impacts of climate change.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
Scientists have long investigated the possibility of thermal "runaway" instability.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
Mass defections erode loyalty, expose human-rights abuses and signal internal instability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
He told his parents what he’d learned in Mr. Lawson’s class, about Gogol’s lifelong unhappiness, his mental instability, about how he’d starved himself to death.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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“We now have shocks that unleash endogenous instabilities that trigger new shocks,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Those conditions could provide exactly what is needed for Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities to form.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Its present size and depth, approximately 350 km wide, line up well with predictions for these slow-moving mantle instabilities.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2025
Combining high-speed synchrotron X-ray imaging, theoretical analysis and numerical simulation, the researchers revealed the defect mitigation mechanisms, which involve phenomena that reduce instabilities in the laser powder bed fusion process.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024
It has experienced almost continuous conflict between nations, internal instabilities in many countries, and regional rivalries, combined with very rapid economic and social change.
From State of the Union Address by Jimmy Carter
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