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equilibrium

[ee-kwuh-lib-ree-uhm, ek-wuh-] / ˌi kwəˈlɪb ri əm, ˌɛk wə- /


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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

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




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