stabilizer

Example Sentences

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Clinicians call this the “prescribing cascade”: An antidepressant causes insomnia, so a sleep aid is added; a stimulant causes irritability, so a mood stabilizer follows.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 10, 2026

But I take four pills, one is a mood stabilizer, which helps to shrink the gap between the highs and lows in my moods.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2025

He says he searched for a year, on beaches from Myanmar to the Maldives, before finding his first piece, from the rear stabilizer of the plane, on a sandbar in Mozambique.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency applied a soil stabilizer to prevent ash and dust from dispersing.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2024

He swept his device across it, nodded, and pulled one of the stabilizer fins off.

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld