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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

"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

And Knutti says that imbalance has roughly tripled over the past two decades - although the precise increase depends on which years are compared.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

Such a list of legitimate apostrophe jobs certainly brings home to us the imbalance of responsibility that exists in the world of punctuation.

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

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

"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

At the Fed’s annual Jackson Hole conference in 2003, he and a co-author warned a hands-off approach could create financial imbalances vulnerable to a sudden collapse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

But later, after my mother lost her faith in God, that leatherette Bible wound up wedged under a too-short table leg, a way for her to correct the imbalances of life.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan




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