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stabilize

[stay-buh-lahyz] / ˈsteɪ bəˌlaɪz /


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For a few years, it was restricted from paying dividends, a condition of the government-backed funding it received to help stabilize the business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

"We have fundamentally changed how we stabilize the American defense industrial base to produce at speed and scale," top Pentagon acquisition official Michael Duffey was quoted as saying in the Pentagon announcement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

The 19th-century statesmen gathered at Vienna to stabilize Europe in the aftermath of Napoleon’s ravaging.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Sexton’s presence could help stabilize the Lakers’ offense, which is averaging 25.3 turnovers during the preseason.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

According to this concept you first needed to blast out of the atmosphere and stabilize a mother spacecraft inside of Earth’s orbit.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

Mobile earnings are expected to improve, as prepaid customer spending stabilizes following recent product changes, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

In many cases, people taking GLP-1 drugs have reported that their hair begins growing again several months after their weight stabilizes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

Even if the Iran conflict cools and oil stabilizes, a powerful El Niño could keep pressure on essential prices through the end of 2026 and into 2027.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026

“Even though it might not be 100% mature right now, once it truly matures and stabilizes, it’s quite possible it could perform even better than humans,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

The second Unit of Treatment restores the mental equilibrium, stabilizes the mental activities and places them under perfect control.

From Stammering, Its Cause and Cure by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue

Much of the body performs the powerful rotational movements needed for propulsion, while the head remains stabilized to support controlled travel.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Increased Gulf Arab oil exports have roughly stabilized world prices, above prewar levels but not disastrously so.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

SpaceX’s stock has mostly stabilized following a few months of turbulence in the aftermath of its initial public offering, and the company is due to report third-quarter earnings next week.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Even if the war and the oil situation stabilized, Della Fave said, "I wouldn't expect the yields to dramatically reduce, to be honest, because of this influence of the AI debt situation."

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

The city had stabilized and healed—but he had been left permanently scarred.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

This market brief sounds like Groundhog Day lately, with Treasury yields stabilizing each morning and then hitting fresh, multidecade highs at some point.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

Shop for those that are showing signs of stabilizing.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

“That certainly serves as a stabilizing force, as we’re literally weeks away from mailing the ballots,” said Dean Logan, head of the L.A.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

"Simplified models can inadvertently strip away the very stabilizing effect we want to capture."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

As he was inside stabilizing it, he heard another helicopter approach.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers


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