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
  • 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
  • One of my ideas was to place a figure from the Age of Enlightenment, a humanist, in a sort of psychic disequilibrium.
    — Anderson Tepper, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • If disequilibrium equals opportunity—retailers and brands will need a new compass.
    — Gary Drenik, Forbes, 8 June 2022
  • Roger Bootle, founder of Capital Economics, says the next five to 10 years will be disequilibrium on steroids.
    — Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2017
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Hurricanes are giant heat engines driven by the thermodynamic disequilibrium between the tropical oceans and atmosphere.
    — Kerry Emanuel, Discover Magazine, 24 Aug. 2015
  • In contrast additive effects are less sensitive to decay in linkage disequilibrium, which measures the association of alleles across genes, so that one marker may serve as a signal for the presence of another variant down or up the genome.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 Mar. 2013
  • Biochemists have tended to favor an alternative proposal, that a chance occurrence of prebiotic chemistry triggered an initial disequilibrium.
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2014
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • If disequilibrium equals opportunity, Zero Party Data Analytics just might provide both retailers and brands with a …new compass.
    — Gary Drenik, Forbes, 8 June 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Family members also said Urbanski may have been experiencing dialysis disequilibrium syndrome, a condition that can cause confusion in people undergoing long-term dialysis treatment.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Mar. 2026
  • This stable abnormality has rested on a dual architecture of impunity and rehabilitation—a profitable, sect-transcendent disequilibrium sustained by oil revenues, shadow economies and, more recently, frenzied real-estate speculation.
    — Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026
  • Competitive bids for influence and investment lead not to innovation that benefits everyone but to rising hostility from increasingly reckless, shortsighted establishments—not a new, stable equilibrium but a permanent, chaotic disequilibrium.
    — Jamie Merchant, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2025
  • 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 Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2017

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