instability
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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
It also often leads to housing instability, academic withdrawal, and family dissolution.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
If the older silica-poor disks and their seemingly random periods of changing infrared brightness are caused by orbital instability, the pattern would be broadly compatible with the Late Heavy Bombardment hypothesis for our solar system.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
In a sign of Iraq’s instability, the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The violent conflict in Cuba created substantial economic and political instability, which captured the attention of the American government because Cuba was only ninety miles from the coast of Florida.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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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
The researchers believe these swirling flows are evidence of Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, a familiar phenomenon in fluid dynamics.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities develop when two fluids move alongside one another at different speeds.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
These persistent instabilities can affect everything from uplift and erosion to inland volcanic patterns, even in regions considered geologically stable.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2025
He moved into special accommodation for people recovering from mental instabilities.
From Underground by Suelette Dreyfus
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