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The tight finances are also making politics more unstable.

True to its Greek name meaning "unstable," it exists only fleetingly in nature.

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Its large size makes the nucleus of uranium 235 unstable—to break it apart, all nuclear operators need to do is add some loose neutrons to the mix.

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But the weight of the obelisk on even a very large vessel would make it top-heavy and unstable.

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By Thursday, September 18, 2008, however, the big picture had grown so unstable that the small picture had become nearly incoherent to him.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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