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Why Systems Resist Healthy Change Family systems theorists use the concept of status quo bias or homeostasis to explain why systems often resist change and try to return to familiar patterns.—
Maia Niguel Hoskin,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2026 That’s one of the things that's true, is that some people called me a conspiracy [theorist] on the Epstein stuff.—ABC News,
16 June 2026 The political theorist Hélène Landemore has won notice as a champion of direct democracy, which would allow the barriers between center and periphery to give way.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026 Mina Aganagic, a string theorist at Berkeley who has taught calculus for 20 years, noticed something similar.—
Idrees Kahloon,
The Atlantic,
9 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for theorist