stabilizing

verb

present participle of stabilize
1
as in plateauing

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2
as in fixing

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stabilizing
  1. fixing
  2. setting
  3. freezing
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  • During a speech to soldiers in 2025, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, an Iraq War veteran and former cavalry officer, acknowledged that fixing basic rank-and-file issues, including access to quality food, is an urgent issue for the service.
    — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 23 July 2026
  • Documents that once reflected reality slowly stop doing so, and fixing them later almost always requires more time, more complexity and more expense than updating them along the way.
    — Anatoly Iofe, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
Definition of fixing
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  • So, hotels may have obtained a financial boost from the tournament but due to setting higher rates than usual, not because of a massive increase in number of guests.
    — Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 25 July 2026
  • Retention of messages has also been an issue in the federal government, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio setting some of his Signal chats to auto-delete.
    — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2026
Definition of setting
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  • Room-temperature operation Quantum computers mostly depend on massive, freezing dilution refrigerators.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 21 July 2026
  • Within hours of the vote, opposition parties petitioned the High Court of Justice, which issued a temporary injunction freezing its implementation.
    — Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
Definition of freezing
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