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
  • Researchers emphasize the urgent need for habitat restoration and monitoring to address the detrimental imbalances caused by the disaster.
    Real-Time News team, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This deepening also has an index in the formal features of his poetry—the ambiguity of his pronouns, the firm particularity of his register of images—which teeters between the mundane and the epiphanic, and renders this imbalance itself into view.
    Elaine L. Wang September 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • The team surmised that this unbalance may be due to strong eastward winds that distribute heat and clouds across the exoplanet’s surface.
    Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Entropy maximization has long been thought to be a trait of nonequilibrium systems.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2017
Noun
  • Sure, other fates are possible, like direct collapse to a black hole or explosions through the pair-instability mechanism, but a core-collapse supernova (also known as a type II supernova) represents the fate of the majority of the most massive stars ever to be born.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Founders cited financial stress and income instability as major concerns, with 68% uncertain about meeting payroll or personal expenses, leading to exhaustion.
    Samantha Dewalt, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025

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