instability
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Evan Mawarire is a Zimbabwean pastor and activist, and since 2008, his home country has experienced a kind of inflation and economic instability that is hard to fathom.
From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026
If they grew larger, the system moved toward instability.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
The dot plot was originally designed to give a heads-up to the public about the Fed’s intentions in order to avoid bouts of instability in the economy.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
Brent crude settled at about $106 a barrel, up 1%, as widening instability in the Middle East threatens oil supply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
I spent that weekend in a slushy mix of anxiety about the country’s instability and delight at watching Otto fill out into a handsome young bonobo.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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Even relatively small disturbances in the plasma, known as instabilities, can grow within milliseconds and disrupt the fusion reaction.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
These instabilities have been a major obstacle to improving fusion performance.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2026
By measuring the beam's shape and the magnetic fields it generated, the researchers were able to determine whether plasma instabilities could be strong enough to disrupt the beam's flow.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2025
"The instabilities that we expect in Antarctica could be very different, and we can now capture those differences, using this model."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 3, 2024
When they possess a fixed staff of teachers they are not, of course, liable to the instabilities which at present beset the Harvard Annex.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
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