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noun

instability

an unstable order

In a sentence

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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