instability

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Excessive power and instability go hand in hand.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

West Texas Intermediate crude rose to $100.11 a barrel, marking its first time above $100 since Monday, amid ongoing regional instability.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

Whether in Kyiv or Khan Younis, war has ceased to be a mechanism for conflict resolution and has instead become a perpetuator of instability, humiliation and loss.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026

On Tuesday, industry body Offshore Energies UK said that without more domestic production, the country risks becoming reliant on imports "at a time of rising global instability".

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

He told his parents what he’d learned in Mr. Lawson’s class, about Gogol’s lifelong unhappiness, his mental instability, about how he’d starved himself to death.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri