instability
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Second, the work of both Messrs. Hall and Woodford shows how government policy, especially monetary policy, has at times erred and caused instability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Scientists have long investigated the possibility of thermal "runaway" instability.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026
It also often leads to housing instability, academic withdrawal, and family dissolution.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
"The coastline flanking the sea arch has shown signs of instability for years," NPS, which warned in 2021 that the arch would eventually crumble, said in a statement.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
How Barack and I comported ourselves in the face of instability mattered.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities develop when two fluids move alongside one another at different speeds.
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
When applied to cosmic scales, this suggests that plasma instabilities alone are too weak to account for the missing gamma rays.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2025
When we were unable to contact Standskill, we sought to contact you psionically last night, but found that your mind was a completely unreadable jumble of nightmares, filled with phobias and instabilities.
From The Psilent Partner by John Victor Peterson
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