unstable
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Last week, the school issued a more-than-200-page internal report confronting what it called an unprecedented crisis in higher education, thanks to unstable federal funding, falling public trust and the rise of artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
They pay smugglers thousands of dollars to board unstable and often overcrowded rubber dinghies to make the hazardous illegal journey across one of the world's busiest shipping routes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
One longstanding ecological puzzle is that older mathematical models predicted large, complicated ecosystems should be inherently unstable.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
As glaciers retreat, they can leave behind expanding lakes held back by unstable deposits of rock and ice.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
They think I’m a stalker, a nutcase, mentally unstable.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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