Example Sentences

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Watching egocentrism augment in real time, on a mass scale, is as heartbreaking and destabilizing as death itself.

From Salon • Jun. 13, 2026

“If the answers are honest and you can afford it without destabilizing yourself, have the best time and go! Don’t let anyone guilt you out of joy you’ve budgeted for,” she told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 12, 2026

“When fragility in parts of the system make each interest rate change potentially destabilizing, the central bank sees its room for maneuver curtailed,” Lagarde said.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

"It's concerning, because this warm water can flow beneath Antarctic ice shelves, melting them from below and destabilizing them," said Joshua Lanham, lead author of the study at Cambridge Earth Sciences.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026

Mine shafts were bored through the earth like holes through Swiss cheese, often destabilizing whole valleys.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson