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destabilize

[dee-stey-buh-lahyz] / diˈsteɪ bəˌlaɪz /


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Repeated gravitational nudges from Jupiter can gradually destabilize asteroids in this region.

From Science Daily Jul. 18, 2026

In a 2024 document titled the “AI Safety Governance Framework,” regulators said unchecked AI could destabilize society by “transforming traditional views on employment, fertility, and education.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

Brokerages don’t like when shares are immediately resold because it can destabilize the IPO price and strain relationships with underwriters, Taube says.

From Barron's Jun. 10, 2026

Strong winds can destabilize the spinning column or cause it to collapse altogether.

From Science Daily Jun. 5, 2026

“It seems to me that you are all determined to start a panic that will destabilize everything we have worked for these last thirteen years!”

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling

SYDNEY—New Zealand’s economic recovery remained frustratingly tentative in the fourth quarter of last year, with economists warning that the outlook faces fresh threats as the war in the Middle East destabilizes the world economy.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 18, 2026

It spreads into South Sudan, it destabilizes South Sudan, it spreads into Chad, it’s got refugees in Egypt.

From Slate Nov. 20, 2025

Gating, in contrast, occurs when a heavy ion flow disrupts the charge balance and destabilizes the pore's structure.

From Science Daily Nov. 11, 2025

Nick’s energized romantic do-si-do destabilizes the group, and gives them something new to gossip about and compare their own lives with as they wobble through the ensuing year.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2025

The heat destabilizes the emulsion and the separate oil and water phases will reform.

From Salon Jan. 2, 2024

“We’re making it a reality that our schools are going to be very much more destabilized than they have been,” Griego said.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

Their results indicate that about eight out of 10 planets around tight binary stars would be destabilized, and most of those would ultimately be destroyed.

From Science Daily Apr. 19, 2026

Meanwhile, Tuesday marked four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine — a war that has cost hundreds of thousands of lives and destabilized European security.

From Salon Feb. 25, 2026

These actions undermined the slaveholders’ power, destabilized systems of slavery and, in some cases, hastened the enactment of emancipatory laws.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 26, 2026

I thought Ocean would wake up, dizzy and destabilized by this emotional train wreck to discover that it hadn’t been worth it, actually; that I hadn’t been worth it.

From "A Very Large Expanse of Sea" by Tahereh Mafi

And this stoic performance comes despite a number of potentially destabilizing factors, including volatility in the oil market and in the technology sector.

From MarketWatch Jul. 29, 2026

Watching egocentrism augment in real time, on a mass scale, is as heartbreaking and destabilizing as death itself.

From Salon Jun. 13, 2026

Instead of targeting genetic mutations, the team found a method for destabilizing the machinery cancer cells use to repair DNA.

From Science Daily Jun. 10, 2026

Both justify that intervention by framing AI as a destabilizing force.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 5, 2026

Over and over again, I heard the same story: the police and the defense force were destabilizing the area.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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