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
  • These include celiac disease, pelvic floor dysfunction, irritable bowel syndrome, hormonal imbalances such as hypothyroidism, metabolic disorders like diabetes, neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease or even certain cancers.
    Daryl Austin, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2025
  • What’s frustrating is that while Tom and Robbie’s dance of evasion and investigation gets more predictable, the series’ performances get richer, so Task teeter-totters on an imbalance of story and ensemble.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 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
  • There’s political instability in a lot of places in the world right now with tension.
    Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Advertisement Still, the election of a new premier, for now, may end a period of instability for Thailand and gives Anutin the chance to prove his leadership.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 5 Sep. 2025

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