destabilize
Example Sentences
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Some lawmakers in Europe and the U.S. say inverters could be exploited to destabilize the grid.
Done too aggressively, it also risks draining reserves too much, destabilizing funding markets and creating volatility for short-term borrowing rates.
From MarketWatch
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
Unless middle powers can look beyond their short-term interests, they could become a further destabilizing force, Prasad says.
As Ms. Liu puts it: “How could they reap its benefits without allowing it to destabilize their authority?”
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