disequilibrium

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Recent Examples of disequilibrium One of my ideas was to place a figure from the Age of Enlightenment, a humanist, in a sort of psychic disequilibrium. Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023 Billy's severe psychotic episodes point to a brain in disequilibrium and, correspondingly, to the need for drugs and treatments to alter this pathology as a basic standard of care. Matthew M. Kurtz, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023 However, the feelings of disequilibrium weren’t going away. IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023 Captured in each is a moment—always a moment, present tense—of disequilibrium between the inside and the outside of an individual existence. Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022 See All Example Sentences for disequilibrium
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Noun
  • When industries generate large, measurable profits alongside large, measurable public costs, the system struggles to resolve the imbalance.
    Nicolas S. Rohatyn, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • There's an imbalance in Republicans' favor at the national committee level.
    ABC News, ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Fashion is a sector that has heavily relied on third-party manufacturing, producing an overall unbalance of big brands versus small players.
    Martino Carrera, Footwear News, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Many also question whether its prize pool has the potential to unbalance leagues when participating teams return home.
    Melanie Anzidei, New York Times, 22 June 2025
Noun
  • Entropy maximization has long been thought to be a trait of nonequilibrium systems.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2017
Noun
  • This, along with warm temperatures and low humidity levels sitting over much drier and cooler temperatures, creates conditional instability.
    Ron Smiley, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Its response is an intelligent chassis control system that actively suppresses instability during towing.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 15 Apr. 2026

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“Disequilibrium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disequilibrium. Accessed 22 Apr. 2026.

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