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destabilize

[dee-stay-buh-lahyz] / diˈsteɪ bəˌlaɪz /


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“Without relief, Defendants’ calculated campaign will continue to inflict fear, to destabilize SAL’s operations, and to cause further irreparable harm.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026

Repeated gravitational nudges from Jupiter can gradually destabilize asteroids in this region.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

A collective exit can destabilize the system and create a scramble to balance power supply and demand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

California’s budget experts have warned that maintaining full Medi-Cal coverage for immigrants without seeking additional revenue would destabilize the state’s long-term fiscal outlook.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026

They might “build on public panic to further destabilize the system by disseminating rumors” and therefore “increase media coverage” and “stress the public health system.”

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

SYDNEY—New Zealand’s economic recovery remained frustratingly tentative in the fourth quarter of last year, with economists warning that the outlook faces fresh threats as the war in the Middle East destabilizes the world economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

It spreads into South Sudan, it destabilizes South Sudan, it spreads into Chad, it’s got refugees in Egypt.

From Slate ● Nov. 20, 2025

Nick’s energized romantic do-si-do destabilizes the group, and gives them something new to gossip about and compare their own lives with as they wobble through the ensuing year.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2025

When the new actin subunit arrives, its incorporation onto the filament destabilizes the formin arrangement and requires the stable half-ring to step onto the new subunit and become loose, while the other half-ring becomes stable.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024

The heat destabilizes the emulsion and the separate oil and water phases will reform.

From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2024

As someone who was a freelance writer for about a year, I can empathize with the desire to keep your life flexible while also feeling destabilized by the lack of structure.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026

“We’re making it a reality that our schools are going to be very much more destabilized than they have been,” Griego said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

In January 2022, the landfast sea ice in the embayment suddenly broke apart, likely due to powerful ocean swells that destabilized the region.

From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026

Even if the active fighting ends within weeks, the deeper concern is whether a destabilized Iran becomes a permanent source of risk on Dubai’s doorstep.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

I thought Ocean would wake up, dizzy and destabilized by this emotional train wreck to discover that it hadn’t been worth it, actually; that I hadn’t been worth it.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

Markets across the board, however, seem to be “front-running growing concerns that there could be major and destabilizing military escalations in the Persian Gulf as early as next week,” said American Gold Exchange’s Samuelson.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

According to the bosses, this broke an unwritten rule: Nothing emotionally destabilizing should be brought up at the Tuesday meeting, since therapists would see clients right after.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Unless you go through it, it can be difficult to understand how destabilizing a false positive can be.

From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026

For her, it’s not just about someone who understands that rents are high or that groceries are expensive, but about a candidate who understands how destabilizing all those things can be.

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026

Three profoundly destabilizing scientific ideas ricochet through the twentieth century, trisecting it into three unequal parts: the atom, the byte, the gene.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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