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Examples of unbalance in a Sentence
Verb
If too many people stand up, it will unbalance the boat.
The tax cuts have unbalanced the budget.
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Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
Though this streamlined version is more muscular, some of the playwright’s cuts have unbalanced his structure: the main dramatic pivot rests on the show’s wobbliest scene, and grownup Joan’s late-play entrance cues a series of diminishing returns.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 12 July 2024
Some of the factors include poor water quality; animals living in very deep water who detect the shore too late; unbalance and confusion created by Earth’s magnetic field changes; contamination by heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium or zinc; or contamination by compounds such as PCBs and DDTs.
—Maria Carolina Gallego-Iradi and David Borchelt, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2017
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Verb
Moreover, releasing additional organisms into areas where there might already be a ladybug population could further unbalance the current ecosystem.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
Though this streamlined version is more muscular, some of the playwright’s cuts have unbalanced his structure: the main dramatic pivot rests on the show’s wobbliest scene, and grownup Joan’s late-play entrance cues a series of diminishing returns.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2024
Noun
Not by trying to smooth out this unbalance, or trying to fish for quotas or whatnot.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 12 July 2024
Some of the factors include poor water quality; animals living in very deep water who detect the shore too late; unbalance and confusion created by Earth’s magnetic field changes; contamination by heavy metals such as mercury, cadmium or zinc; or contamination by compounds such as PCBs and DDTs.
—Maria Carolina Gallego-Iradi and David Borchelt, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2017
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“Unbalance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unbalance. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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