dislocation
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New technologies bring dislocation, as changes in farming have to small towns where I live.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
Tyler Micoleau’s lighting tended toward dimness, which intensified the sense of dislocation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
A dislocation in pricing then, can and probably will persist.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Yet for all its honesty about that dislocation, the film remains remarkably hopeful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
My dislocation is a gift that keeps on giving.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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This process enabled the researchers to introduce many more dislocations into the CoAl than conventional casting normally permits.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
Xinghang Zhang, a professor in Purdue's School of Materials Engineering, is the corresponding author of the paper, titled "Plasticity in brittle intermetallics enabled by framework of amorphous interfaces and preexisting dislocations."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 31, 2026
Their oil production businesses gain if inventories keep falling and crude prices rise, while their refineries, trading desks, chemical plants, and logistics networks can profit from the dislocations created by the war.
From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026
The teeming secondary material produced about his work always emphasizes the dislocations of his biography.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Still, I reason, this sudden removal to an unknown state is not all that different from the kinds of dislocations that routinely segment the lives of the truly poor.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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