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disequilibrium

[dis-ee-kwuh-lib-ree-uhm, dis-ee-] / dɪsˌi kwəˈlɪb ri əm, ˌdɪs i- /






NOUN
unbalance
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"India is a big enough power," Clary says, "that disequilibrium does not imperil its continued rise."

From BBC May 7, 2026

We sense this disequilibrium in the cultural prominence of 24-hour cable news, streaming television and podcasts, an expansion of what in 1982 the cultural historian Walter J. Ong dubbed the age of “secondary orality.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 12, 2025

In a typical genomic region, many variants are highly correlated with each other, due to a phenomenon called linkage disequilibrium.

From Science Daily Jan. 26, 2024

The telescope is just beginning its remote exploration of the atmospheres of dozens of exoplanets, hunting for the same sort of chemical disequilibrium that Galileo spotted in Earth’s atmosphere.

From Scientific American Oct. 18, 2023

The stress of a country suffering from industrial disequilibrium is transmitted to other nations.

From American World Policies by Weyl, Walter E.




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