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instability

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


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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

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

“You’ll have to expect some emotional instability, after what they’ve been through. They were particularly ill prepared, coming from their life in the Capitol.”

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

“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

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

Ramsey thanked him feebly, and departed in a state of partial stupefaction, brought on by a glimpse of the instabilities of life.

From Ramsey Milholland by Booth Tarkington


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