stabilizer
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Clinicians call this the “prescribing cascade”: An antidepressant causes insomnia, so a sleep aid is added; a stimulant causes irritability, so a mood stabilizer follows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026
The ACL acts as a stabilizer in the knee, preventing it from buckling and keeping the tibia from moving too far forward.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026
He says he searched for a year, on beaches from Myanmar to the Maldives, before finding his first piece, from the rear stabilizer of the plane, on a sandbar in Mozambique.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024
Environmental Protection Agency applied a soil stabilizer to prevent ash and dust from dispersing.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2024
“Except Festus tells me the port aerial stabilizer got pulverized when the ship raked against the dock at Fort Sumter.”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
Thankfully that never happened thanks to the ship’s stabilizers, allowing me to traverse sea ice, view an unsuccessful polar bear hunt, and photograph wildlife from whales to walruses in comfort.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
Often, they’re processed with emulsifiers, flavor enhancers, stabilizers and other additives.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026
Over several cycles, stabilizers were measured every 1.66 microseconds to correct both bit flips and phase flips.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 6, 2026
First, to be considered ultra-processed, food must contain one of several non-natural substances spanning eight categories, among them emulsifiers, stabilizers, flavor enhancers and flavoring agents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025
The sea glittered with chop, but Leo had fixed the stabilizers well enough that Hazel didn’t look too seasick.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
