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
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
All over Levittown and the smaller, nearby communities that feed into Truman, it isn’t usually poverty I observe, but rather the steady, low-simmering tumult of economic and family instability.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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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
Those conditions could provide exactly what is needed for Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities to form.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
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
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
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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