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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

Malkovich and Sam Rockwell play veteran CIA operatives who, after helping destabilize Salvador Allende’s government in 1973 Chile, head to Easter Island on a more personal assignment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 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

“It seems to me that you are all determined to start a panic that will destabilize everything we have worked for these last thirteen years!”

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

But that strategy has come into question as a warming planet destabilizes Himalayan glaciers and river systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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

Gating, in contrast, occurs when a heavy ion flow disrupts the charge balance and destabilizes the pore's structure.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 11, 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

I date occasionally and nothing destabilizes these men more than when I say, hey, really enjoying our time together, but I never wanna get married ever again.

From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2024

“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

Uleer explains that the volatility of geopolitics destabilized market equilibrium at the start of March.

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 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

It’s a confounding and destabilizing experience for overachieving women used to being on top of every detail.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 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

Experts and officials offered differing views on Khamenei’s legacy, with some citing his hard-line policies as destabilizing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 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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