destabilize
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Critics worry that such a move would destabilize the economy and cause mortgage rates to spike.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 24, 2026
Instead of protecting cells, the heightened repair activity can harm neurons and destabilize the genome, which may increase the risk of cancer.
From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026
While acknowledging there are geopolitical risks stemming from, say, an escalation in hostilities with Iran, that could disrupt and destabilize markets, any dips should prove to be buying opportunities, the report says.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 23, 2026
Within it, Briggs describes concrete strategies that military aggressors employ to destabilize their opponents, but the indirect impacts achieve the same as the direct.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
“It seems to me that you are all determined to start a panic that will destabilize everything we have worked for these last thirteen years!”
From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling
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