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Recent Examples of disequilibrium
So much of it is in disequilibrium, riddled by heat, pressure, and chemicals trying to get from their current location to somewhere else.
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Robin George Andrews, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024
Researchers also see empathic disequilibrium as a possibility for some people.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
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
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Robin George Andrews, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024
Researchers also see empathic disequilibrium as a possibility for some people.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2023
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disequilibrium
Noun
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This imbalance helps push more fluid backward while maintaining stability during glide phases, improving overall efficiency.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
14 May 2026
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Singri also highlights a growing imbalance between large organizations and individuals.—
Lyssanoel Frater,
USA Today,
14 May 2026
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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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With Teutonic deadpan, Sander sends up the often ideologically weighted social photography of which his project is an example—and records the giddy, glitchy instability of the Weimar years, when the old order was in disorienting flux, and would soon disappear altogether.—
Max Norman,
New Yorker,
21 May 2026
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When leaders choose silence over strategic communication, that silence leads to significantly negative outcomes, resulting in a culture and environment filled with fear, instability and uncertainty.—
Christina Wood,
Forbes.com,
20 May 2026
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“Disequilibrium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disequilibrium. Accessed 23 May. 2026.
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