How to Use equilibrium in a Sentence

equilibrium

noun
  • Supply and demand were in equilibrium.
  • 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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