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Six example sentences with instability, each labelled with its topic.
Engineers blamed the tower's instability on soft clay beneath the eastern footings, which settled unevenly through the first winter.
Architecture
Three currency devaluations in a single year created an instability that scared patient lenders away from the region entirely.
Finance
Four governments fell in eleven months, and the instability left ministries staffed by clerks who answered to nobody.
Politics
Price instability made planning impossible, since a bakery could not know on Monday what flour would cost by Friday.
Economics
The instability of the new release showed in the logs, with the server restarting itself eleven times before lunch.
Technology
Heavy rain left the whole hillside in a state of instability, and geologists closed the road below it for a month.
Environment
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