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Examples of unbalance in a Sentence
Verb
If too many people stand up, it will unbalance the boat.
The tax cuts have unbalanced the budget.
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Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
The foreign objects that rest upon my shoulders and head weighed me down and unbalanced my weighty body.
—Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 12 July 2024
Some of the factors include poor water quality; animals living in very deep water who detect the shore too late; unbalance and confusion created by Earth’s magnetic field changes; contamination by heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium or zinc; or contamination by compounds such as PCBs and DDTs.
—Maria Carolina Gallego-Iradi and David Borchelt, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2017
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Verb
Jayati Ghosh, an economist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, said the meteoric rise of Ambani and the rest of India’s 200 billionaires, who collectively hold nearly $1 trillion, according to Forbes, could unbalance India’s development at a time when other economic metrics are lagging.
—Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
The foreign objects that rest upon my shoulders and head weighed me down and unbalanced my weighty body.
—Brendan Le, Peoplemag, 4 Mar. 2024
Noun
Not by trying to smooth out this unbalance, or trying to fish for quotas or whatnot.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 12 July 2024
Some of the factors include poor water quality; animals living in very deep water who detect the shore too late; unbalance and confusion created by Earth’s magnetic field changes; contamination by heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium or zinc; or contamination by compounds such as PCBs and DDTs.
—Maria Carolina Gallego-Iradi and David Borchelt, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2017
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“Unbalance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unbalance. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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