How to Use destabilize in a Sentence

destabilize

verb
  • Economists warn that the crisis could destabilize the nation's currency.
  • The group hoped the assassination of the new President would destabilize the government.
  • This will destabilize us to the extent that storm updrafts may become quite vigorous.
    Washington Post, 26 May 2021
  • Free bus service, a blunt instrument with questionable goals, would destabilize rather than help our public transit agencies.
    BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2021
  • Harsh weather has further complicated the work, with thunderstorms threatening to flood or destabilize the structure.
    Washington Post, 25 June 2021
  • Security analysts have long warned that increasing water stress could destabilize the region.
    Ciara Nugent, Time, 26 May 2021
  • The fall of Mekelle signaled a turning point in a war that has plunged Ethiopia into chaos and threatened to destabilize the wider Horn of Africa region.
    New York Times, 29 June 2021
  • While Abiy hopes this election will cement his mandate, analysts said there is reason to worry that the election will further destabilize Ethiopia.
    Washington Post, 20 June 2021
  • Collectively, the conflicts in the Middle East have destabilized the wider region and helped reignite the civil war in Syria that had been in a stalemate for years.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Yet the same research threatens to destabilize the spectrum and her place on it.
    Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • There was a real effort to destabilize our trust in schools just.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 11 Oct. 2022
  • And the voters know that the U.S.’s bombing of Yemen last week will further destabilize the region.
    Iman Jodeh, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2024
  • In spite and because of it all, the glamour and the stardom, that time was also destabilizing for Blige.
    Zandria Robinson, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Russia will threaten more of its neighbors, from Moldova to the Baltic states, and destabilize the globe.
    Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Foreign Affairs, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Both he and his daughter have been sanctioned by the United States for their actions to destabilize Ukraine.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 22 Aug. 2022
  • For some critics of the rate hike effort over the past year, the collapse of the banks adds to their fears that the Fed’s push could destabilize the broader economy.
    Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Now the pair start to keep score, tallying up a point each time one of them says something that destabilizes the other.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Your mission this full moon week is to not give into people’s attempts to destabilize you or throw you off the path.
    Dossé-Via, refinery29.com, 30 May 2023
  • Cooler air in the core of the trough aloft will help destabilize the atmosphere, and increase the winds in middle levels of the atmosphere.
    Washington Post, 29 July 2021
  • The retreat of glaciers has already caused structures at Camp Muir, a camp for climbers, to shift slightly as the ground destabilizes, Beason said.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 22 June 2023
  • This is not the first attempt to destabilize Mali’s ruling junta.
    Baba Ahmed, ajc, 17 May 2022
  • Skies are partly sunny, with breaks in the clouds at times, destabilizing the atmosphere for the next storm round.
    A. Camden Walker, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The conflict in Africa’s third-largest country is spilling across the borders and destabilizing its neighbors.
    Hafiz Haroun, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
  • The conflict threatens to destabilize Africa's third-largest nation.
    George Petras, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
  • That money is going to be used not only to destabilize, probably the world, not just the region.
    NBC News, 20 Mar. 2022
  • Residents, however, fear the new project will destabilize the hill and send it crashing down again.
    Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2022
  • That element destabilizes the film’s tone — which, up until then, has been laced with irony.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The military has said that although Khan had a right to hold a rally there, no one would be allowed to destabilize the country.
    Arkansas Online, 4 Nov. 2022
  • But that could also add stress to the financial sector and in turn destabilize the economy.
    Krystal Hur, CNN, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Speaking before the board, teen members of the group said that a shift to clean energy to reduce the use of fossil fuels that warm and destabilize the atmosphere is as important to their futures as their educations.
    Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2024

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