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The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, first enacted in 1987 and expanded in 2001, requires that districts take specific actions to help unstably housed students complete school.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 23, 2022

We looked at the numbers in our bank statement and they quivered unstably, like a hallucination, like Scrooge's worst nightmare shown to him by the Ghost of Christmas in Chapter 11.

From Salon • Jul. 19, 2020

It’s a system we desperately need—and that private industry can certainly move more quickly on than the lumbering, unstably funded FAA.

From Slate • Jun. 15, 2018

While most 10-year-olds freely run and jump around, Alexis walks- albeit sometimes unstably and with help going up and down stairs.

From Washington Times • Mar. 1, 2015

Like enigmatic books, with figures grotesquely gay, that open for a moment and in a moment are closed, so unstably and fleetingly all floated before his soul.

From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Tieck, Ludwig