How to Use destabilize in a Sentence

destabilize

verb

• Economists warn that the crisis could destabilize the nation's currency.
• The group hoped the assassination of the new President would destabilize the government.
• Is the chaos destabilizing your sense of self-worth?
  — Usa Today, USA Today, 30 May 2026
• No mention was made then of a plot to destabilize the kingdom.
  — WSJ, 6 Apr. 2021
• There was a real effort to destabilize our trust in schools just.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 11 Oct. 2022
• Each is aware of what keeps them strong, but also what threatens to destabilize them.
  — Nick Hornby, Star Tribune, 25 Sep. 2020
• Beau’s death had destabilized the family in more ways than one.
  — Time, 30 Jan. 2020
• Yet the same research threatens to destabilize the spectrum and her place on it.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
• No more tossing of the kitchen sink at trying to destabilize human minds.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
• Some worried that the volatile trading could destabilize markets and prompt a mass sell-off.
  — Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2021
• Without thick sheets of ice to buttress it, the rock face becomes destabilized.
  — Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
• The air mass will destabilize, but to what extent is still uncertain.
  — Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2021
• Ghosts blur the lines between past and present, life and death, destabilizing the order of things.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 17 Feb. 2026
• This will only serve to destabilize the system and harm the very people it is supposed to serve.
  — David C. Mulligan, STAT, 23 Nov. 2020
• The threat is purposely meant to affect and destabilize a whole group of people.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2019
• Erosion of trust threatens and destabilizes the system in a whole other way.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 16 Mar. 2020
• Iran’s network has destabilized and spread terror throughout the world.
  — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 8 Mar. 2026
• Your mission this full moon week is to not give into people’s attempts to destabilize you or throw you off the path.
  — Dossé-Via, refinery29.com, 30 May 2023
• Now the pair start to keep score, tallying up a point each time one of them says something that destabilizes the other.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
• When the racket meets the ball, small errors can quickly destabilize the robot.
  — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 2 Jan. 2026
• Analysts warn that the conflict, which has deep roots, could reignite and destabilize the region.
  — NPR, 31 Oct. 2025
• Over time, the black hole's gravity could have destabilized the star, pushing it to collapse.
  — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• This is not the first attempt to destabilize Mali’s ruling junta.
  — Baba Ahmed, ajc, 17 May 2022
• The proximity to a celebrity of her stature had destabilized me.
  — Darcey Steinke, Vogue, 27 July 2025
• The image’s cheerful scene also obscures how death had destabilized the area.
  — Thomas Tweed, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2025
• The fungus destabilizes the tree and doubles as a food source for the beetles and their growing larvae.
  — Calista Oetama, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2025
• The conflict is seen by experts as a serious threat to destabilize the region.
  — Fox News, 26 Nov. 2020
• That project of civilization - born in the Holocene - has destabilized it.
  — Adam Frank, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
• At any moment, a small collapse could destabilize the entire thing, sending millions of tons of ice to melt in the ocean.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2018
• No country can be allowed to destabilize the global economy in this way.
  — Npr Staff, NPR, 26 Mar. 2026