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synonyms for unstable
- ambiguous
- changeable
- erratic
- fickle
- insecure
- irrational
- precarious
- risky
- rocky
- sensitive
- shaky
- slippery
- ticklish
- tricky
- uncertain
- unpredictable
- unsettled
- unsteady
- volatile
- weak
- wobbly
- borderline
- capricious
- dizzy
- dubious
- fitful
- fluctuating
- giddy
- inconsistent
- inconstant
- lubricious
- mercurial
- mobile
- movable
- moving
- mutable
- not fixed
- rickety
- shifty
- suspect
- teetering
- temperamental
- untrustworthy
- vacillating
- variable
- wavering
- weaving
- wiggly
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How to use unstable in a sentence
Only Colbert can work through a “Your internet connection is unstable” warning popping up during a Zoom interview.
One Good Thing: Stephen Colbert is looser, funnier, and angrier in quarantine | Emily VanDerWerff | September 4, 2020 | VoxThere’s a long history of rural areas relying on one unstable source of income and on the desirability of natural resources.
The Recreation Economy Isn't As Resilient As We Thought | Heather Hansman | August 29, 2020 | Outside OnlineAfter that, spring would bring unstable ice, rising waters, and unsuitable conditions to trap fish owls.
The quest to snare—and save—the world’s largest owl | Jonathan Slaght | August 28, 2020 | Popular-Science
If the universe turns out to be fundamentally unstable, a tiny bubble of the cosmos could convert to a more stable state.
‘The End of Everything’ explores the ways the universe could perish | Emily Conover | August 4, 2020 | Science NewsIf the voltage goes too high or too low, the water itself becomes unstable.
Most of the think tanks thought that the situation in eastern regions of Ukraine would remain unstable for a long time.
Putin and Poroshenko Agree to… Think About a Ukraine Ceasefire | Anna Nemtsova | September 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHowever, as they enter the current, the boat becomes unstable.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq | Nathan Bradley Bethea | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYou lethargic, unfocused, unstable, lazy, hazy, crazy time of year.
Several people from the neighborhood told The Daily Beast the man was mentally unstable.
The late 1960s proved to be the most civically unstable since the 1860s.
A Brief History of Wingnuts in America; From George Washington to Woodstock | John Avlon | August 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHence Napoleon was driven more and more to trust to the advice of the rash, unstable King of Naples.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonIndustrial society is therefore mobile, elastic, standing at any moment in a temporary and unstable equilibrium.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockThe bliss of lovers is so unstable, that in every case lovers have more woes than the moon has changes.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerTo me it is simply a medium, an unstable, oscillating medium of impetuous spiritual energies.
The Creators | May SinclairAs a jailer he was in close touch with facts and knew by experience how unstable in these days was any man's power.
The Light That Lures | Percy Brebner
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