instability

Example Sentences

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Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the U.S. failed to anticipate the political disruption that followed, with insurrections across Iran, a devastating war with Iraq, instability in the Middle East, and threats to U.S. national security.

From The Wall Street Journal

Global allies and partners, including many in the Gulf and Europe, have voiced alarm over the escalation and the regional instability it could unleash.

From Salon

She said she was "furious" about the instability, after 20 years of living in Qatar.

From Barron's

This pattern of temporary instability followed by renewed stabilization repeats across several cell cycles until the cell fully divides.

From Science Daily

Given the capacity of the Middle East to export trouble, the eruption of renewed and intensified war deepens the instability of region and wider world that is already turbulent, violent and dangerous.

From BBC