instability
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Once a small-bore banana republic marked by political instability, its weak institutions, rampant corruption and attractive location made it a target for gangsters looking to create a transit hub.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 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
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
Every day he punched cards, punched and punched, trying to avoid instability, divergence, distortion.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
“We now have shocks that unleash endogenous instabilities that trigger new shocks,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
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
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
However, the high-confinement mode has historically come hand-in-hand with instabilities at the plasma's edge, a challenge that has required fusion researchers to find creative workarounds.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024
Just as the study of hysteria deals mainly with instabilities in the threshold of consciousness, so does the study of zymotic disease deal mainly with instabilities in the constitution of the blood.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
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