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unstable

[uhn-stey-buhl] / ʌnˈsteɪ bəl /


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The researchers believe the shipment sank during a particularly unstable period in Mediterranean history.

From Science Daily • Jun. 8, 2026

This is the 17th Ebola outbreak to hit the DRC, a vast and unstable central African country of more than 100 million people.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

But over the short and even intermediate terms, lasting not just several years but decades, gold’s correlation to inflation is unstable.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

Watch the NYU Stern School of Business professor and author talk about how to find a job in an unstable economy.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

The rules of physics dictated that an element with a half-life of 2.3 days had to be highly unstable.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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