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equilibrium

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


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Some analysts warn that if the 10-year yield breaks through its recent high of 4.687%, its rise could accelerate while traders search for a new equilibrium.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 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

He swears by the practice, saying it’s kept his bowel movements regular and his emotional state at an equilibrium.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

Liverpool believe that any agreement cannot come at the cost of the clubs financial equilibrium nor undermine the allocation of resources within the playing squad.

From BBC May 29, 2026

In the village structure, spirits shimmered among the live creatures, balanced and held in equilibrium by time and land.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Which of the systems described in Exercise 13.15 are homogeneous equilibria?

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

Economists have for a long time been used to this, speaking of equilibria between supply and demand, between labor and capital, between enterprise and the other factors of production, between intensive and extensive margins, etc.

From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)

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

Mr. Varoufakis agreed that in the Greece example, “the game has multiple equilibriums and, therefore, a failure to agree may trigger a chain of outcomes that no one can either predict or control.”

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

Accidents, either moral, mental, or physical, break up the slowly built-up equilibriums men reach in family life and in their civic and professional relations.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William




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