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.
• Goals that distract from those missions can only destabilize the U.S. economy.
  — Alexander William Salter, National Review, 6 Oct. 2021
• All of these conditions combine to further destabilize low income families.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2021
• But Trump was, of course, fabricating lies of widespread election fraud -- and those lies threatened to destabilize our democracy.
  — Julian Zelizer, CNN, 7 Oct. 2021
• Furthermore, growth-enhancing policies can destabilize these systems and there should be more concern for systemic resilience.
  — Frank Van Gansbeke, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
• Its immediate aim is to destabilize the Taliban and shatter the group’s image as a guardian of security.
  — Samya Kullab, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2021
• Those that stayed saw their already struggling nation destabilize further -- since then, Haiti has never fully recovered.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 3 Oct. 2021
• This dynamic has been destabilizing the global market with a flood of cheap Chinese exports creating a sharp backlash in the form of stiff tariffs.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2024
• Some of the debt is coming due this week, and investors fear a default will destabilize the Chinese financial system and roil international markets.
  — Yvonne Lau, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2021
• Players have said that a lack of rights and financial security contributed to a culture of silence, as players feared that publicizing problems would destabilize the league.
  — Rachel Bachman, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
• Defaulting would also destabilize the global economy, and could plunge the country into recession amid a still ongoing pandemic.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Trump warns of another world war, and yet here, too, his policies seem designed to encourage aggression and destabilize the international order.
  — The Editors, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024