How to Use destabilize in a Sentence

destabilize

verb
  • Economists warn that the crisis could destabilize the nation's currency.
  • The group hoped the assassination of the new President would destabilize the government.
  • The conflict in Africa’s third-largest country is spilling across the borders and destabilizing its neighbors.
    Hafiz Haroun, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • Ukrainians also worry that Mr. Putin will try to destabilize their country.
    Jillian Kay Melchior, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2022
  • And extreme weather is already threatening to destabilize the food supply, all while demand for food increases.
    Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 10 Feb. 2022
  • If the Fed doesn't act, inflation could become even more intense and could destabilize the entire economic system.
    Christopher Leonard For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 7 Feb. 2022
  • But none of these investments justifies looking away as Rwanda destabilizes its neighbor.
    Jason K. Stearns, Foreign Affairs, 26 July 2024
  • Experts say an invasion of Ukraine would destabilize world energy markets, resulting in higher prices at gas pumps.
    Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The peace deal was widely condemned by Ukrainians, and officials in Kyiv have warned that implementing it now would destabilize the country.
    Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Hybrid attacks also aim to destabilize Ukraine’s fragile democracy.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Analysts say the trick will be to devise a plan that will be acceptable to the Kremlin without provoking a backlash in Ukraine that could destabilize the government.
    New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • Yet the same research threatens to destabilize the spectrum and her place on it.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • There was a real effort to destabilize our trust in schools just.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 11 Oct. 2022
  • And the voters know that the U.S.’s bombing of Yemen last week will further destabilize the region.
    Iman Jodeh, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2024
  • In spite and because of it all, the glamour and the stardom, that time was also destabilizing for Blige.
    Zandria Robinson, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Russia will threaten more of its neighbors, from Moldova to the Baltic states, and destabilize the globe.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Foreign Affairs, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Both he and his daughter have been sanctioned by the United States for their actions to destabilize Ukraine.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2022
  • For some critics of the rate hike effort over the past year, the collapse of the banks adds to their fears that the Fed’s push could destabilize the broader economy.
    Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Now the pair start to keep score, tallying up a point each time one of them says something that destabilizes the other.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Your mission this full moon week is to not give into people’s attempts to destabilize you or throw you off the path.
    Dossé-Via, refinery29.com, 30 May 2023
  • The retreat of glaciers has already caused structures at Camp Muir, a camp for climbers, to shift slightly as the ground destabilizes, Beason said.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 22 June 2023
  • This is not the first attempt to destabilize Mali’s ruling junta.
    Baba Ahmed, ajc, 17 May 2022
  • Skies are partly sunny, with breaks in the clouds at times, destabilizing the atmosphere for the next storm round.
    A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The conflict threatens to destabilize Africa's third-largest nation.
    George Petras, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
  • That money is going to be used not only to destabilize, probably the world, not just the region.
    NBC News, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Residents, however, fear the new project will destabilize the hill and send it crashing down again.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2022
  • That element destabilizes the film’s tone — which, up until then, has been laced with irony.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The military has said that although Khan had a right to hold a rally there, no one would be allowed to destabilize the country.
    Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2022
  • But that could also add stress to the financial sector and in turn destabilize the economy.
    Krystal Hur, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
  • After the child had been destabilized a third and final time, the breathing tube was found to have moved a fifth of the way in from where a doctor had placed it, prosecutors said.
    Christina Coulter, Fox News, 26 June 2024

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