How to Use equilibrium in a Sentence

equilibrium

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  • Supply and demand were in equilibrium.
  • By the end of the film, Thor reaches a kind of equilibrium.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 1 Aug. 2021
  • And there is a lot of harm to the equilibrium of downtown.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2020
  • The reason Mia and Lucia are there in the story is to break the equilibrium of the space.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Dec. 2022
  • In the year since then, an equilibrium of sorts has held.
    — Andrew Prokop, Vox, 1 June 2018
  • This slow feedback is part of how the Miocene and Pliocene came to equilibrium.
    — Howard Lee, Ars Technica, 20 Dec. 2021
  • What is the long-run equilibrium between the two sides?
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2022
  • In the view of many observers, the equilibrium in the Taiwan Strait is in danger.
    — Hou Yu-Ih, Foreign Affairs, 18 Sep. 2023
  • But what we’re meant to do is go back to equilibrium when the stress is removed.
    — Andrea Kane, CNN, 12 Aug. 2024
  • But Bank of America predicts that the two forces, with the help of a push from the Fed, will reach equilibrium in 2025.
    — Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 21 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Like it or not, the U.S. is the only force that can restore equilibrium.
    — Nadia Schadlow, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Even the base coaches are at equilibrium, with Matt Williams in the third-base box and Mark Hallberg at first.
    — Evan Webeck, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The third round brought things back into equilibrium, with four of the first five picks being from SEC schools.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 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
  • 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 world is moving and changing, but there needs to be equilibrium.
    — Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Now, think of the adjustment process to a new equilibrium at a higher rate.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 26 Mar. 2023
  • It’s the key equilibrium to each unique relationship — when to be dad and when to be coach.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Congee's the one thing that will settle my stomach and bring me to a nice equilibrium.
    — Brandon Jew, Bon Appetit, 11 May 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
  • Randy liked Katy's friends too, and didn't want to upset their equilibrium.
    — Francesca Street, CNN, 15 Dec. 2022
  • To be sure, the ecosystem is not in perfect equilibrium.
    — Peter Schwartz and Peter Leyden, WIRED, 1 July 1997
  • This causes muscles to go limp and a loss of equilibrium.
    — Matt Williams, ExpressNews.com, 19 Dec. 2019
  • One is that both seem to possess an equilibrium-like state.
    — Wired, 8 Sep. 2019
  • There are ways to play with this equilibrium and push more CO2 into chemical forms that stay in the ocean.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2021
  • In hawk-dove, if the cost of fighting is more than half the prize’s value, a Nash equilibrium exists when there is one hawk and one dove.
    — Matthew Hutson, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2022
  • This apparent anomaly is the result of a new equilibrium in the hybrid working space, the authors said, where growing demand for in-office workers increases their salary packages.
    — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 30 Sep. 2024
  • Before long, their bond disrupts her family’s quiet equilibrium forever.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024

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