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instability

[in-stuh-bil-i-tee] / ˌɪn stəˈbɪl ɪ ti /


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In a sign of Iraq’s instability, the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

According to the World Weather Attribution group, the massive rock-and-ice collapse was shaped by long-term warming, glacier retreat and geological instability.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

He said this was "increasingly dangerous" in a time of global instability.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

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

There was an instability in the upper atmosphere.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd

The researchers believe these swirling flows are evidence of Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, a familiar phenomenon in fluid dynamics.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026

These instabilities have been a major obstacle to improving fusion performance.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2026

By developing a new high-density operating approach for EAST, the team showed that plasma density can be pushed well past long-standing empirical limits without triggering the disruptive instabilities that usually end experiments.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 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

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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