How to Use equilibrium in a Sentence

equilibrium

noun
  • Supply and demand were in equilibrium.
  • The traders simply let the equilibrium level break and jump on the move for a big piece of upside or correction.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • This model considers the channel as a range for the noise within the equilibrium.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • Without their weekly worship, some of the church members struggled to find equilibrium.
    oregonlive, 31 July 2021
  • But until the economy can find a new equilibrium of prices, wages, output and demand, things aren’t going to feel just right.
    New York Times, 21 July 2021
  • This means that the gases dissolved inside their bodies are in equilibrium with the pressure outside.
    Anna Russel, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The atmosphere was able to exist in an equilibrium, creating a sort of blanket that kept the planet warm but not too hot.
    Matt Simon, Wired, 11 Aug. 2021
  • In many of these passages, facts, gyration, jive and comedy are cut across one another yet in equilibrium.
    Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2021
  • Wilczek envisioned a multi-part object in equilibrium, much like a diamond.
    Quanta Magazine, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Finding equilibrium with his parents, one of whom is essentially paying him to help take care of the other, often feels like the bigger crisis.
    Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Can all the streaming giants get together and determine a volume equilibrium?
    Luke Winkie, Vulture, 19 June 2021
  • And those branches and subbranches evolved at tremendous speeds in the finale, further proving how fragile the whole equilibrium that Kang imposed really is.
    Chris Smith, BGR, 14 July 2021
  • The slightly sweet coco bread provides equilibrium, serving as a counterweight to the scotch-bonnet burn of the Walkerswood jerk seasoning.
    Washington Post, 16 June 2021
  • 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
  • Eventually, the industry is likely to arrive at a post-pandemic equilibrium, and workers will lose some of their newfound bargaining power.
    Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 8 July 2021
  • 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
  • More than anyone else in the zodiac, Libra is an expert at taking huge swings in order to find equilibrium.
    Jennifer Culp, Them, 18 Sep. 2024

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