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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disequilibrium
Noun
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Trump also made modest gains among white women, though white men continued to back him more strongly, preserving the longstanding gender imbalance.—
Martha McHardy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Sep. 2025
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This area is crucial for handling complex, urban delivery environments and fluctuating demand, yet many companies still use static zoning, leading to imbalances in workload and higher costs.—
Andre Claudio,
Sourcing Journal,
19 Sep. 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
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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
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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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Its nuclear dimension raises the risk of a nuclear war in the Middle East at a time when the region is rocked by instability and conflict spanning Israel, Gaza, Iran, Lebanon, and Syria in particular.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Sep. 2025
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More instability is likely ahead.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Disequilibrium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disequilibrium. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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