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instability

[in-stuh-bil-i-tee] / ˌɪn stəˈbɪl ɪ ti /


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“There’s just kind of a sense of instability and a little bit of ‘here we go again,’” she said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

Amid ongoing instability, any new natural-uranium reactor would risk radioactive hazards or diversion of material into the wrong hands.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Five years since the Taliban began their second stint in power, poverty, unemployment and economic instability remain pressing concerns.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

Aggressive expansions typically come with plenty of risk: an immediate strain on resources, profit instability, and possibly outgrowing the existing business model.

From Slate Aug. 24, 2026

But he may also, to some extent, be a beneficiary of this ongoing instability.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

The researchers believe these swirling flows are evidence of Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities, a familiar phenomenon in fluid dynamics.

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 developing a new high-density operating approach for EAST, the team showed that plasma density can be pushed well past long-standing empirical limits without triggering the disruptive instabilities that usually end experiments.

From Science Daily Jan. 4, 2026

The researchers also demonstrated that they could use the ring-shaped beam to drill deeper into the material without causing instabilities in the process.

From Science Daily Nov. 22, 2024

Just as the study of hysteria deals mainly with instabilities in the threshold of consciousness, so does the study of zymotic disease deal mainly with instabilities in the constitution of the blood.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers




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