equilibrium
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In “Late Fame,” he’s now old and played by Willem Dafoe with a sense of tranquil equilibrium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
A couple of weeks ago, Hoisington concluded that equilibrium U.S. inflation is migrating up toward 3.5% to 4.5%, and that both inflation and long-term Treasury yields will trend higher.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
According to the researchers, the problem is that Hawking's approach works only when a black hole is in equilibrium.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
"Suddenly when they're out of the ground, they're out of equilibrium, and that normally means they start to decay, fall apart."
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
It takes only the smallest of changes to shatter an epidemic’s equilibrium.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
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Multiple equilibria are possible in a game like this.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
Such properties include a wide variety of measurable traits such as phase equilibria, density, or heat capacity, for example, that characterize physical systems and determine how chemical processes work.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2024
"For fundamental research into the dynamics of nutrients and other equilibria in tidal areas, it is very important to understand the role of temperature, salinity, benthic animals and also turmoil by storms."
From Science Daily ● Feb. 22, 2024
How will an increase in temperature affect each of the following equilibria?
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
By the preservation in successive generations of those whose moving equilibria are less at variance with the requirements, there is produced a changed equilibrium completely in harmony with the requirements.
From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents by John Lord
Recent efforts in de-extinction have focused on the Tasmanian tiger, as its natural habitat in Tasmania is still mostly preserved, and its reintroduction could help recovering past ecosystem equilibriums lost after its final disappearance.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2023
Engineers and architects strive to achieve extremely stable equilibriums for buildings and other systems that must withstand wind, earthquakes, and other forces that displace them from equilibrium.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Yet one of Dr. Nash’s critical insights is that there may be many possible outcomes — so-called Nash equilibriums — that produce suboptimal results.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2015
Nash equilibriums, which he described in the hieroglyphics of mathematical symbols, exist everywhere.
From Washington Post ● May 24, 2015
It is as much as I can do to hold my own,—and more, unless I am with well-bred people who always keep their equilibriums.
From Gala-days by Gail Hamilton
Vocabulary lists containing equilibrium
Force and Motion (Mechanics) - Middle School
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Force and Motion (Mechanics) - Introductory
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Chemistry - Introductory
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