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Repeated gravitational nudges from Jupiter can gradually destabilize asteroids in this region.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

The BIS noted that AI investment faces bottlenecks in energy and semiconductors, and a bust could destabilize the financial system.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026

Strong winds can destabilize the spinning column or cause it to collapse altogether.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026

It said that he returned "with the intent to destabilize" the country and that he provided financial support to the M23's political arm.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

They might “build on public panic to further destabilize the system by disseminating rumors” and therefore “increase media coverage” and “stress the public health system.”

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

SYDNEY—New Zealand’s economic recovery remained frustratingly tentative in the fourth quarter of last year, with economists warning that the outlook faces fresh threats as the war in the Middle East destabilizes the world economy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 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

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

This enzyme destabilizes the proteins in the milk – the proteins then aggregate together and make a gel.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2024

When the new actin subunit arrives, its incorporation onto the filament destabilizes the formin arrangement and requires the stable half-ring to step onto the new subunit and become loose, while the other half-ring becomes stable.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024

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

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026

Their results indicate that about eight out of 10 planets around tight binary stars would be destabilized, and most of those would ultimately be destroyed.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 19, 2026

Meanwhile, Tuesday marked four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine — a war that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and destabilized European security.

From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2026

The disaster has destabilized local utilities that for generations quietly kept faucets flowing in Altadena.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 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

And this stoic performance comes despite a number of potentially destabilizing factors, including volatility in the oil market and in the technology sector.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

Technicians monitoring the monument’s 140 microfractures have noted that further high-impact sculpting would risk catastrophic rockfalls, potentially destabilizing the scupture of Abraham Lincoln.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026

Watching egocentrism augment in real time, on a mass scale, is as heartbreaking and destabilizing as death itself.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

Instead of targeting genetic mutations, the team found a method for destabilizing the machinery cancer cells use to repair DNA.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026

Mine shafts were bored through the earth like holes through Swiss cheese, often destabilizing whole valleys.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson