How to Use equilibrium in a Sentence

equilibrium

noun
  • Supply and demand were in equilibrium.
  • And there is a lot of harm to the equilibrium of downtown.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
  • In the year since then, an equilibrium of sorts has held.
    Andrew Prokop, Vox, 1 June 2018
  • By the end of the film, Thor reaches a kind of equilibrium.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Aug. 2021
  • What is the long-run equilibrium between the two sides?
    Mark Landler, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • This causes muscles to go limp and a loss of equilibrium.
    Matt Williams, ExpressNews.com, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The world is moving and changing, but there needs to be equilibrium.
    Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Now, think of the adjustment process to a new equilibrium at a higher rate.
    Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 26 Mar. 2023
  • This slow feedback is part of how the Miocene and Pliocene came to equilibrium.
    Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Redmond said the plan now was for her team to maintain its equilibrium of fun and focus.
    Tyler Foy, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • To be sure, the ecosystem is not in perfect equilibrium.
    Peter Schwartz and Peter Leyden, WIRED, 1 July 1997
  • One is that both seem to possess an equilibrium-like state.
    Wired, 8 Sep. 2019
  • Congee's the one thing that will settle my stomach and bring me to a nice equilibrium.
    Brandon Jew, Bon Appetit, 11 May 2017
  • We are locked in a violent embrace in search of a new equilibrium.
    Parag Khanna, Wired, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Things that are not alive tend to be at a kind of equilibrium with their environment.
    Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The problem is that equilibrium rates have been driven close to zero.
    The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
  • Think of each baked good like an ecosystem in a delicate state of equilibrium.
    Sarah Jampel, Bon Appétit, 14 Feb. 2020
  • It’s the key equilibrium to each unique relationship — when to be dad and when to be coach.
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2022
  • When players are at equilibrium, no one has a reason to stray.
    Quanta Magazine, 18 July 2017
  • The holy grail biosignature is chemistry that is out of equilibrium.
    Thomas Lewton, Quanta Magazine, 12 Oct. 2021
  • And then everything slows, almost to a stop, as if the whole event needs to make up for its chaos and find its equilibrium.
    John Branch, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Haldea suggests to find yourself a daily practice to keep you mind and body in a state of equilibrium.
    Yola Robert, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
  • In equilibrium, that should mean that energy use falls by half as well.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 17 May 2018
  • In many ways, supply and demand forces in the labor market are still out of equilibrium.
    Heather Long and Eli Rosenberg, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2021
  • The pH of our blood is like an acid-base balance gauge that keeps our body in stable equilibrium.
    Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 14 Feb. 2023
  • In equilibrium, a store of value as volatile as bitcoin would not be very useful.
    Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 22 June 2021
  • But now that eagles are recovering, the two species must duke it out and find a new equilibrium.
    Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2020
  • Try not to let minor hassles in the workspace upset your stomach or equilibrium.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2020
  • Since then, the locals and astronomers have found a quiet equilibrium.
    Raghu Karnad, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2020

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