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Six example sentences with unstable, each labelled with its topic.
The scaffolding sat on unstable fill, and inspectors halted the job until crews poured a proper concrete pad.
Architecture
The isotope is unstable, shedding particles until it settles into a form that will sit unchanged for millions of years.
Science
Standing on one leg on an unstable cushion trains the small ankle muscles that keep a runner upright on trails.
Fitness
The coalition was unstable from the start, and the government fell after only seven months.
Politics
The nightly build was unstable, crashing whenever two users opened the same file at once.
Technology
The currency proved unstable through the summer, losing a tenth of its value one week and regaining it the next.
Finance
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Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)
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