How to Use disequilibrium in a Sentence

disequilibrium

noun

• The condition is caused by a disequilibrium in the brain's chemistry.
• Even happy events—going off to college, the birth of a child—can throw a system into a state of disequilibrium.
  — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 9 July 2018
• Much has changed in Pakistan since the first time Sharif was dismissed from office in 1993, but that disequilibrium remains.
  — chicagotribune.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• Roger Bootle, founder of Capital Economics, says the next five to 10 years will be disequilibrium on steroids.
  — Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2017
• This disequilibrium lasts until the shorts are sufficiently at a neutral risk position, or squeezed, dead or fired.
  — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 7 Feb. 2020
• That disequilibrium has, in turn, been dogged by a creeping tension, and the new frontier narrative has been accompanied by one of looming conflict, even the possibility of a new Cold War.
  — Neil Shea, National Geographic, 21 Aug. 2019
• The disequilibrium of living should show up as a chemical difference between an organism and its surroundings—regardless of what the surroundings, or the life, are made of.
  — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
• Billy's severe psychotic episodes point to a brain in disequilibrium and, correspondingly, to the need for drugs and treatments to alter this pathology as a basic standard of care.
  — Matthew M. Kurtz, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
• Captured in each is a moment—always a moment, present tense—of disequilibrium between the inside and the outside of an individual existence.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• The 2018 merger of Northrop Grumman with Orbital Sciences created a disequilibrium in the solid rocket motor sector.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021
• However, based on the advice of nearly every energy economist and pundit, OPEC decided to defend a price close to the disequilibrium level, which was unsustainable.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• Natural selection within the genome leaves more evidence behind in regards to its operation than just long halotype blocks and linkage disequilibrium.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2013
• However, the feelings of disequilibrium weren’t going away.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023
• If disequilibrium equals opportunity—retailers and brands will need a new compass.
  — Gary Drenik, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• When a disequilibrium develops, often because of an external shock, markets respond – which is to say that suppliers respond, customers adapt, and before long equilibrium is re-established.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2022
• While some experienced a constant disequilibrium and brain fog that were similar to mine, others had become accustomed to a pattern of short periods of relative health alternating with longer periods of vertigo.
  — Brian Platzer, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2020
• Using the most sensitive measure of recent consanguinity, a statistic of run of homozygosity pruned of markers in linkage disequilibrium, the authors did not find a strong effect of magnitude of inbreeding increasing the depression.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 July 2012
• Anyone who considers river time in relation to atomic time will encounter a major disequilibrium and may be motivated to counteract it by consuming fewer fossil fuels or supporting greener policies.
  — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2021
• For many generations after the initial selection event these flanking regions will produce regions of linkage disequilibrium, as recombination only slowly breaks apart apart the associations across loci.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 Sep. 2013
• Hurricanes are giant heat engines driven by the thermodynamic disequilibrium between the tropical oceans and atmosphere.
  — Kerry Emanuel, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2015
• Biochemists have tended to favor an alternative proposal, that a chance occurrence of prebiotic chemistry triggered an initial disequilibrium.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2014
• About 70 diplomats were evaluated for symptoms ranging from hearing loss, tinnitus, disequilibrium, headaches, facial and abdominal pain, memory and sleep disorders, concussions and nausea.
  — Nora Gámez Torres and Mimi Whitefield, miamiherald, 8 Jan. 2018
• Until the Black Death, medical writers did not routinely categorize distinct diseases, and instead often presented illness as a generalized physical disequilibrium.
  — Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | AAAS, 13 July 2021
• But the practices made possible by the post-1970 rules have contributed to institutional disequilibrium, destabilizing the Constitution’s design by inciting a dangerous expansion of presidential power.
  — George F. Will, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2017
• So linkage disequilibrium, where genetic variants (alleles) across loci (genes) exhibit non-random statistical associations, varies over time as the correlations decay due to recombination.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 Jan. 2011

Last Updated: 14 Oct 2024