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instability

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


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Heightened instability in the Middle East is also pushing up costs for shipping in the Red Sea.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

Aggressive expansions typically come with plenty of risk: an immediate strain on resources, profit instability, and possibly outgrowing the existing business model.

From Slate Aug. 24, 2026

It demeans the entire nation, and adds to the instability in the world.

From Salon Aug. 21, 2026

None of the works address the recent bombardments directly, although the precarious context of ongoing threat, instability and struggle can be felt in almost all of them.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

The priest told Farmer stories of the dam, about the chaos and instability it had created almost overnight.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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

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

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

Our turning away would unleash new instabilities, new dangers around the globe, which, in turn, would threaten our own security.

From State of the Union Address by Gerald R. Ford




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