instability
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Once a small-bore banana republic marked by political instability, its weak institutions, rampant corruption and attractive location made it a target for gangsters looking to create a transit hub.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Despite this conflict - and growing instability across the wider region - migrants still cross the Bab el-Mandeb Strait to Yemen driven by poverty, insecurity and the growing impacts of climate change.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
It also often leads to housing instability, academic withdrawal, and family dissolution.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
If the older silica-poor disks and their seemingly random periods of changing infrared brightness are caused by orbital instability, the pattern would be broadly compatible with the Late Heavy Bombardment hypothesis for our solar system.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
“You’ll have to expect some emotional instability, after what they’ve been through. They were particularly ill prepared, coming from their life in the Capitol.”
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
Those conditions could provide exactly what is needed for Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities to form.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities develop when two fluids move alongside one another at different speeds.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 8, 2026
By measuring the beam's shape and the magnetic fields it generated, the researchers were able to determine whether plasma instabilities could be strong enough to disrupt the beam's flow.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2025
Combining high-speed synchrotron X-ray imaging, theoretical analysis and numerical simulation, the researchers revealed the defect mitigation mechanisms, which involve phenomena that reduce instabilities in the laser powder bed fusion process.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024
When we were unable to contact Standskill, we sought to contact you psionically last night, but found that your mind was a completely unreadable jumble of nightmares, filled with phobias and instabilities.
From The Psilent Partner by John Victor Peterson
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