How to Use steady state in a Sentence

steady state

noun
  • They are forced to stay on their toes and are in a steady state of readiness.
    — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 4 Mar. 2018
  • While driving in a steady state, there isn’t even engine noise.
    — Michael Harley, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2024
  • The team kept the magnet energized in a steady state for about 5 hours.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 July 2023
  • Reaching that steady state isn’t like turning a page on a calendar.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 12 Aug. 2021
  • The lack of sunshine means temperatures will be in a fairly steady state all day.
    — Katie McInerney, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The moon can be seen moving relative to the steady state background of distant stars.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2018
  • What if managing change is not about returning to a steady state but about thriving in constant flux?
    — Sherzod Odilov, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Having said that, audit and tax will remain a steady state niche market for which schools need to produce students.
    — Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Still, the defaults highlight how a steadier state sector has come at a cost to private enterprise.
    — Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 31 July 2018
  • Someone who is muscular can consume more protein and glucose to maintain a steady state.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
  • That was during a post-glacial period, hydrologists point out, when the lake was seeking a steady state.
    — New York Times, 17 May 2020
  • Once symptoms begin, people usually are in a steady state of illness for about a week to 10 days.
    — Erin Allday, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2020
  • That suggests there’s some thoughtfulness behind your gratitude practices and your steady state isn’t joy.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2021
  • When a battery is new, there can be some noticeable degradation as the battery settles into its steady state.
    — Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 28 May 2024
  • Some folks forecast that there could be a decrease in the number of folks who are arriving, some folks say an increase and some folks could see a steady state.
    — Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023
  • The steady state model suggested that the universe had no beginning and had always been expanding.
    — Mara Johnson-Groh, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2020
  • But at this time of the year, everyone's on a break from politics and the steady state is because for a couple of weeks, nobody really cares.
    — Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Gusty southwest winds keep temperatures in a nearly steady state with lows in the upper 50s to low 60s.
    — David Streit, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
  • And that’s the fear, that unemployment has drifted up now a fair amount, and it’s supposed to settle at a steady state, full employment level.
    — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Given this, the 'steady state' academic R0 must be higher than 1 - perhaps a lot higher.
    — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2015
  • The country’s leadership remains in a steady state of political crisis.
    — Time, 10 Mar. 2020
  • Instead, these have turned into smaller, more predictable bumps in transmission in the summer and winter as the nation reaches a kind of steady state with the virus.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Tallman suggests doing intervals, rather than cycling at a steady state, to get the biggest fat-burning payoff on a stationary bike.
    — Amy Marturana, SELF, 11 Dec. 2017
  • The company plans to bring it online by 2024, with an additional year to reach a steady state of production.
    — Felix Njini, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Most lights using alkaline batteries dim, but the use of lithium batteries pre- vents the typical discharge curve and keeps the lumens in a steady state.
    — Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2020
  • But astronauts haven’t lived on the ISS long enough for scientists to say for sure that these changes to the body will ultimately reach a steady state.
    — Shi En Kim, Science, 2 Dec. 2020
  • But the majority of people, Pillemer says, do return to a steady state once the immediate crisis subsides.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 11 June 2021
  • The United States and China have settled into a steady state of pragmatic, if uneasy, détente.
    — Phil Mattingly, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The group suggests that the heating process facilitates co-assembly of small RNAs and lipids in the decoctions to reach a steady state.
    — Chao Yan, Scientific American, 17 June 2020
  • Designing for live scale means designing for steady states as well as peak moments—because lasting value is created when systems perform under pressure.
    — Dhiraj Adya, Forbes.com, 12 Feb. 2026

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