destabilize
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“Without relief, Defendants’ calculated campaign will continue to inflict fear, to destabilize SAL’s operations, and to cause further irreparable harm.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Malkovich and Sam Rockwell play veteran CIA operatives who, after helping destabilize Salvador Allende’s government in 1973 Chile, head to Easter Island on a more personal assignment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
While these pathways normally support tumor growth, excessive activation can destabilize normal cellular functions and ultimately lead to cell death.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 2026
The BIS noted that AI investment faces bottlenecks in energy and semiconductors, and a bust could destabilize the financial system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
They might “build on public panic to further destabilize the system by disseminating rumors” and therefore “increase media coverage” and “stress the public health system.”
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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But that strategy has come into question as a warming planet destabilizes Himalayan glaciers and river systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 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
But the task is complicated by the fact that risks are dispersed across the Himalayas, while a 2015 earthquake destabilized many rock masses on the southern slopes, the embassy said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
“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
Surging energy prices destabilized stocks trading in Asia and Europe on Monday.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 2, 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
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It’s a confounding and destabilizing experience for overachieving women used to being on top of every detail.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
Even as Chinese policymakers blocked much of the internet’s destabilizing potential, they went all in on its ability to promote economic growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Directing Suda was its own destabilizing experience, he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
Watching egocentrism augment in real time, on a mass scale, is as heartbreaking and destabilizing as death itself.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
Mine shafts were bored through the earth like holes through Swiss cheese, often destabilizing whole valleys.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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