stabilize
verb (used with object)
to make or hold stable, firm, or steadfast.
were stabilizing
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past progressiveof stabilize.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Oil futures were stabilizing, with both Brent and WTI ticking higher, after the U.S.-Iran agreement due to be formally signed Friday had sent prices to their lowest since early March.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
The portfolio’s vacancies were stabilizing until staffing and maintenance woes amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 sent them spiraling.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2025
While hospitals in northern England are still under pressure because of high caseloads, Johnson said hospital admissions and patients in intensive care units elsewhere in England were stabilizing or falling.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 19, 2022
While Mr. Gates’s priorities were stabilizing Afghanistan and concluding the war in Iraq, Mr. Panetta told the troops in Baghdad of a different top goal: “No. 1, quite frankly, is to defeat Al Qaeda.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2011
Toward the end of the 1960s, as the economic growth rate slowed, so also did the social mobility, and there was evidence that social groups were stabilizing.
From Area Handbook for Bulgaria by Violeta D. Baluyut
