disequilibrium

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Recent Examples of disequilibrium 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 The disequilibrium of living should show up as a chemical difference between an organism and its surroundings—regardless of what the surroundings, or the life, are made of. Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 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
  • India's balance of trade figures, out Friday, will receive more scrutiny than usual, given U.S. President Donald Trump's emphasis on trade imbalances between America and its partners.
    Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 15 May 2025
  • Have the last 25 or so years of imbalance between the conferences taken away that much, if at all, from those postseasons?
    Eric Koreen, New York Times, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Mercy is a way to look at our unbalances and do something.
    Judy Knotts, Austin American-Statesman, 15 July 2024
Noun
  • In today’s hyper-connected world, headline after headline about an economic downturn, rising prices and global instability seeps into the workplace, shaping employee morale, workplace culture and even job performance.
    Gyre Renwick, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
  • Inducing opposite-phase steering above 30 or 40 mph could cause drastic instability at speed, creating a very rapid yaw moment that would likely cause an unrecoverable skid.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 7 May 2025

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