How to Use equilibrium in a Sentence
equilibrium
noun- Supply and demand were in equilibrium.
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That stretch should get the A's back to something resembling equilibrium.
— Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2021 -
Just maintaining equilibrium in the midst of chaos is its own accomplishment.
— Kevyn Burger Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 12 Apr. 2021 -
Researchers can only guess if applications, say, once a week or once a month would be enough to create a resilient microbial equilibrium.
— Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 1 May 2021 -
As a result, the brain becomes over-activated in order to restore equilibrium.
— Arthi Rabikrisson, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2021 -
The world will always try to make Amazon more typical – to bring us into equilibrium with our environment.
— Wsj Staff, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2021 -
This precarious state of equilibrium won’t last forever, though.
— Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2024 -
At least one close friend noticed how Highsmith also found equilibrium when painting or drawing, her inner demons quieted by her studies of shape and form and color.
— New York Times, 19 Apr. 2021 -
Humans are not the virus because the indigenous communities have been living in equilibrium with mother nature since the beginning of time.
— Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Apr. 2021 -
Instead, every family has its own equilibrium caused by the makeup of personalities of everyone in it, so there's no blanket rule.
— Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 26 Apr. 2021 -
But after that last statuette gets handed out the real work for the movie industry begins, which includes finding an equilibrium between the needs of streaming services and theaters.
— Frank Pallotta and Brian Lowry, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021 -
Allegra and Laura work to keep Ava at an equilibrium, free of stressors or any interaction that might disturb her well-being and mental health.
— Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 28 Apr. 2021 -
The overall rise in temperatures has already advanced grape harvests by several weeks and is changing the wines’ sensitive equilibrium of aromas.
— Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2021 -
By the end of the film, Thor reaches a kind of equilibrium.
— Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Aug. 2021 -
And there is a lot of harm to the equilibrium of downtown.
— Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020 -
The reason Mia and Lucia are there in the story is to break the equilibrium of the space.
— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022 -
In the year since then, an equilibrium of sorts has held.
— Andrew Prokop, Vox, 1 June 2018 -
This slow feedback is part of how the Miocene and Pliocene came to equilibrium.
— Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2021 -
What is the long-run equilibrium between the two sides?
— Mark Landler, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022 -
In the view of many observers, the equilibrium in the Taiwan Strait is in danger.
— Hou Yu-Ih, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2023 -
But what we’re meant to do is go back to equilibrium when the stress is removed.
— Andrea Kane, CNN, 12 Aug. 2024 -
But Bank of America predicts that the two forces, with the help of a push from the Fed, will reach equilibrium in 2025.
— Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024 -
Whether such an equilibrium can or should be reached in the real world the film doesn’t try to answer.
— Eliana Dockterman, Time, 21 July 2023 -
Like it or not, the U.S. is the only force that can restore equilibrium.
— Nadia Schadlow, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2023 -
Even the base coaches are at equilibrium, with Matt Williams in the third-base box and Mark Hallberg at first.
— Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024 -
The third round brought things back into equilibrium, with four of the first five picks being from SEC schools.
— Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2023 -
The water and air achieved a rare equilibrium on this day - both were 72 degrees.
— Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2017 -
In the new novel, Paula is now sixty-six and has found an equilibrium in her life.
— Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 16 June 2024 -
The world is moving and changing, but there needs to be equilibrium.
— Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023 -
And yet this prurient curiosity also threatened the delicate equilibrium between devout Mormonism and hot-mom content that the group’s women were attempting to maintain.
— Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2024
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