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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.
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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
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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disequilibrium
Noun
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The long-term actuarial deficit reflects a systemic imbalance between contributions and promised benefits.—
Alexis Simmerman,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Mar. 2026
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The protagonist, for her part, feels the students were willing participants and finds their accusations tiresome, insisting the modern outcry over power imbalances is overblown.—
Megan McCluskey,
Time,
5 Mar. 2026
Noun
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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
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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
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Entropy maximization has long been thought to be a trait of nonequilibrium systems.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
26 Jan. 2017
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By identifying patterns that precede instability, operators could intervene before plasma confinement collapses.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Mar. 2026
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Thursday appears to be drier, but with some atmospheric instability and above-normal temperatures, isolated thunderstorms will be possible in the late afternoon.—
Newsroom Meteorologist,
Austin American Statesman,
4 Mar. 2026
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“Disequilibrium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disequilibrium. Accessed 11 Mar. 2026.
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