How to Use equilibrium in a Sentence

equilibrium

noun
  • Supply and demand were in equilibrium.
  • Perhaps the world will find some kind of equilibrium with all of this.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
  • But what we’re meant to do is go back to equilibrium when the stress is removed.
    — Andrea Kane, CNN, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Gaza has reached a new equilibrium.
    — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 23 Dec. 2025
  • So, dry air pulls moisture from your skin in an attempt to reach equilibrium.
    — USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2024
  • When players are at equilibrium, no one has a reason to stray.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 July 2017
  • Whether such an equilibrium can or should be reached in the real world the film doesn’t try to answer.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 21 July 2023
  • The world is moving and changing, but there needs to be equilibrium.
    — Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Randy liked Katy's friends too, and didn't want to upset their equilibrium.
    — Francesca Street, CNN, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Redmond said the plan now was for her team to maintain its equilibrium of fun and focus.
    — Tyler Foy, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2022
  • That equilibrium was thought to be because of cloud cover.
    — Ryan Green, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Things that are not alive tend to be at a kind of equilibrium with their environment.
    — Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Now that old equilibrium seemed to crumble.
    — Jonathan Taplin, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2026
  • In its dynamic equilibrium, our system sways like a grand old tree in the wind.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • Congee's the one thing that will settle my stomach and bring me to a nice equilibrium.
    — Brandon Jew, Bon Appetit, 11 May 2017
  • We are locked in a violent embrace in search of a new equilibrium.
    — Parag Khanna, Wired, 20 Sep. 2020
  • Every story has an equilibrium to be disturbed, and this one opens with a stranger on my doorstep.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Nov. 2025
  • Now, think of the adjustment process to a new equilibrium at a higher rate.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The nation which will not adopt an equilibrium of power must adopt a despotism.
    — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • In the new novel, Paula is now sixty-six and has found an equilibrium in her life.
    — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 16 June 2024
  • The two players in their scenario were already in a state of equilibrium.
    — Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 22 Oct. 2025
  • This slow feedback is part of how the Miocene and Pliocene came to equilibrium.
    — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Others were in a state of fragile equilibrium, ready to flee, but not fleeing yet.
    — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The pH of our blood is like an acid-base balance gauge that keeps our body in stable equilibrium.
    — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 14 Feb. 2023
  • The water and air achieved a rare equilibrium on this day - both were 72 degrees.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Sep. 2017
  • And then everything slows, almost to a stop, as if the whole event needs to make up for its chaos and find its equilibrium.
    — John Branch, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The clock is ticking, again, and their resources and equilibrium have dwindled, again.
    — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
  • The New Deal era brought this equilibrium crashing down.
    — Andrea Katz, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2025
  • There are signs of baseball settling into a new equilibrium.
    — Chad Jennings, New York Times, 21 May 2026
  • But no spreadsheet carries a line item for mental equilibrium.
    — Pankaj Vasani, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025

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