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equilibrium

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


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At Cowles Commission seminars, Friedman persistently argued that their modeling choices were arbitrary and their complex general equilibrium multiple regression models didn’t generate predictions supported by the evidence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

This is because a rough equilibrium exists between the stock market, interest rates and the cost of acquiring a guaranteed lifetime income.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

“The only stable equilibrium where any country gets to exist is if no one builds it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

"Today, something in that fragile equilibrium was broken forever."

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other.

From "1984" by George Orwell

“These two equilibria are self-fulfilling. As soon as a critical mass of bondholders believe they are in a given equilibria their behavior assures that they are!”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

Fermentation proceeds by a cascade of processes, in which phosphate groups swing back and forth, and equilibria between ATP with ADP play a major role.

From History of Phosphorus by Eduard Farber

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

Nash equilibriums, which he described in the hieroglyphics of mathematical symbols, exist everywhere.

From Washington Post ● May 24, 2015

In economics, this expectation culminated in the “discovery” that markets move naturally toward stable equilibriums.

From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2012

All the attractions, repulsions and equilibriums among natural objects are modes of expression of the force of intelligence.

From Joseph Smith as Scientist A Contribution to Mormon Philosophy by John Andreas Widtsoe


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