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[stay-buhl] / ˈsteɪ bəl /


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Uruguay is considered one of Latin America's most stable countries.

From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026

Beverly Scott, who was first diagnosed with ovarian and peritoneal cancer 14 years ago, said treatment was keeping her condition stable but without timely scans it was at risk of spreading unnoticed.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Stars are not perfectly stable objects, and changes in their activity can produce signals that resemble those created by orbiting planets.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Proposition 38 aims to backfill some of that loss by creating a stable source of money to fund immunology and immunotherapy research.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

The stable had been destroyed, along with the fire department and almost every other building around that part of the waterfront.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis

Spending time with Juni and a cast of new friends at the stables was physically and emotionally therapeutic for Hanawalt, particularly as new issues began to sneak up on her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Over the years, he added horse stables and a lavish guesthouse.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 21, 2026

Included were proposals to create an enclosure for the animals, stables, three shepherd huts, parking for tractors and a pond.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

“We could sell the stables and have a nice comfortable life,” West Side Livery stables manager Tony Salerno said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

We get to the stables, and I return the toad to her pen.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

This new object is another with a very elliptical orbit, but it is stabler than 2017 OF201, which suggests that no large planet, including a hypothetical planet nine, is significantly affecting its path.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 9, 2026

Plus, the bond was thousands of times stabler than that of the next-strongest naturally occurring molecular suitor.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 28, 2021

The Queen has urged world leaders at the COP26 climate summit to "achieve true statesmanship" and create a "safer, stabler future" for the planet.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2021

“But the mechanism allows Earth to maintain a stabler and more benign environment overall.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2018

But the thought flits through my mind, There have got to be stabler things than love.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Russell and Hawn famously have one of the stablest relationships in Hollywood, so you have to wonder how they looked at this script and thought, “Yup, that seems normal – sign us up!”

From The Guardian ● Apr. 13, 2018

It hasn't been the stablest year for MakerBot.

From The Verge ● Jul. 24, 2015

The prior studies simply targeted and featured the stablest, most educated gay couples.

From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2012

Though the budget will be $30 million in the red this year, the sol is one of the stablest currencies in Latin America.

From Time Magazine Archive

It must be remembered, too, that the stablest colleges have been proceeding with these changes many more years than the period shown in the table.

From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer

At the time of the epidemic, more than 80% of the country’s 8.4 million horses were stabled on farms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

Not all of the 1,500 horses stabled are eligible to race in the Kentucky Derby.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2025

Afterward, EO is relocated to a farm, where he’s stabled alongside a white stallion whose privileged status doesn’t protect it from human desires and designs.

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2023

The 46 horses stabled in the barn are being monitored for fever and other symptoms.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2021

He showed me how he wanted the horses stabled and groomed.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson

It was a "perfect place" for them because it had a paddock and stabling for their horses, but they soon realised the bulldozers were heading their way.

From BBC ● May 27, 2025

It has offered to fund off-season stabling at Pleasanton and to write races that better fit the makeup of Northern California horses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024

Soon after, Churchill Downs announced it was suspending Baffert for two years through spring 2023, prohibiting the seven-time Derby winner from stabling or racing at tracks owned by Churchill Downs Inc.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2021

Millfield's resources are truly staggering: an equestrian centre, stabling for 50 horses, a 50-metre Olympic swimming pool, Tartan athletics track, playing fields, a putting green, an indoor tennis centre and a fencing salle.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 7, 2012

‘Beds for four, and stabling for five ponies, if that can be managed. Are you Mr. Butterbur?’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien


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