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imbalance

[im-bal-uhns] / ɪmˈbæl əns /


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He would like to even out the two countries’ trade imbalance.

From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2026

At the end, you know, and I don’t know when it started, why it started, what happened, and it just seemed that there was an imbalance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

"The domestic imbalance between strong supply and weak demand remains pronounced, some firms face operational difficulties and the foundation for steady economic improvement requires consolidation," it said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

Mandates can encourage deployment, but they can also inflate electricity prices, due to supply-and-demand imbalance, and stimulate imports.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 2026

So the secret danger was a ballooning stomach, the source of my mother’s imbalance.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

That in itself created imbalances — refiners shifted to diesel “perhaps a little bit too early,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Their varied diets should also buffer them from imbalances in prey populations.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

Bessent released a statement that he said reflected the general position of every country present except for China, which he said was unlikely to agree to a pointed statement about trade imbalances.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

"Those are difficult conversations to have," Josh Lipsky of the Atlantic Council told AFP, referring to the issue of imbalances.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

It is my own feeling that the most successful line of research will be that taken by the men studying enzyme imbalances.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes




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