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stabilizer

[stay-buh-lahy-zer] / ˈsteɪ bəˌlaɪ zər /


NOUN
fin
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Delta Air Lines Flight 7 was taxiing for departure when its left wing clipped Air Canada Flight 785’s horizontal stabilizer at around 10:30 a.m.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Lithium, a mood stabilizer, is a common way to treat the illness.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

For BridgeBio, the news is a potential clearing event for its Attruby drug, an oral stabilizer that addresses the same rare heart disease known as transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

It was the world’s first reusable spacecraft, employing a plane-like design that included wings and a vertical stabilizer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

He made his way just abaft of the cabin, then stood squinting up at the Susan Marie’s guys and stays and at the peaks of her stabilizer bars.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

For decades, individual investors treated bonds as virtually worry-free stabilizers in their portfolio.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

Thankfully that never happened thanks to the ship’s stabilizers, allowing me to traverse sea ice, view an unsuccessful polar bear hunt, and photograph wildlife from whales to walruses in comfort.

From Barron's ● May 6, 2026

Error detection relies on repeated measurements of stabilizers, which work alongside the data qubits to form the logical qubit.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2026

First, to be considered ultra-processed, food must contain one of several non-natural substances spanning eight categories, among them emulsifiers, stabilizers, flavor enhancers and flavoring agents.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025

Nailer’s eyes swept over the broken clipper’s upper decks, the pontoons and stabilizers and the cracked remains of the fixed-wing sails, all of it white, almost blazingly white in the sun.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi


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