How to Use steady state in a Sentence
steady state
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They are forced to stay on their toes and are in a steady state of readiness.
—Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 4 Mar. 2018
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The team kept the magnet energized in a steady state for about 5 hours.
—IEEE Spectrum, 15 July 2023
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There's going to have to be a steady state of coexistence.
—CBS News, 9 Oct. 2019
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The moon can be seen moving relative to the steady state background of distant stars.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 17 July 2018
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The lack of sunshine means temperatures will be in a fairly steady state all day.
—Katie McInerney, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2023
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Reaching that steady state isn’t like turning a page on a calendar.
—Jamie Ducharme, Time, 12 Aug. 2021
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Gusty southwest winds keep temperatures in a nearly steady state with lows in the upper 50s to low 60s.
—David Streit, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023
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Once symptoms begin, people usually are in a steady state of illness for about a week to 10 days.
—Erin Allday, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2020
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But astronauts haven’t lived on the ISS long enough for scientists to say for sure that these changes to the body will ultimately reach a steady state.
—Shi En Kim, Science, 2 Dec. 2020
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Some folks forecast that there could be a decrease in the number of folks who are arriving, some folks say an increase and some folks could see a steady state.
—Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023
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The group suggests that the heating process facilitates co-assembly of small RNAs and lipids in the decoctions to reach a steady state.
—Chao Yan, Scientific American, 17 June 2020
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Still, the defaults highlight how a steadier state sector has come at a cost to private enterprise.
—Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 31 July 2018
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That was during a post-glacial period, hydrologists point out, when the lake was seeking a steady state.
—New York Times, 17 May 2020
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Given this, the 'steady state' academic R0 must be higher than 1 - perhaps a lot higher.
—Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 19 Feb. 2015
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The company plans to bring it online by 2024, with an additional year to reach a steady state of production.
—Felix Njini, Fortune, 19 Nov. 2021
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Extended periods of steady state cardio, like jogging, won’t do much to cut down your spare tire.
—Cori Ritchey, Men's Health, 26 Jan. 2023
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Instead, these have turned into smaller, more predictable bumps in transmission in the summer and winter as the nation reaches a kind of steady state with the virus.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN, 1 Mar. 2024
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Someone who is muscular can consume more protein and glucose to maintain a steady state.
—Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2023
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The steady state model suggested that the universe had no beginning and had always been expanding.
—Mara Johnson-Groh, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2020
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That suggests there’s some thoughtfulness behind your gratitude practices and your steady state isn’t joy.
—BostonGlobe.com, 13 Apr. 2021
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Most lights using alkaline batteries dim, but the use of lithium batteries pre- vents the typical discharge curve and keeps the lumens in a steady state.
—Outside Online, 14 Aug. 2020
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Yet even then, the volatile performance of this season has made clear that the 2021 campaign did not mark the beginning of a steady state of contention fueled by an overflowing talent pipeline.
—Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
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As a form of low-impact steady state (LISS) cardio, walking is one of the most accessible ways to lose weight and improve your cardiovascular health.
—Philip Ellis, Men's Health, 22 Jan. 2023
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The planet’s climate is well established to oscillate between two steady states: the icehouse (when, at a minimum, both poles whiten) and the steamier greenhouse phase, glacier-free.
—Rebecca Giggs, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
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But smaller competitor iFit only dropped 16.5% over the same time period, and basically reached a steady state in June rather than August.
—John Koetsier, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2021
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But the majority of people, Pillemer says, do return to a steady state once the immediate crisis subsides.
—Jamie Ducharme, Time, 11 June 2021
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The campaign needed someone able to dial into a steady state of rage on a moment’s notice, even a high-mileage ex-politician scarcely known to a younger generation of voters.
—New York Times, 8 Dec. 2019
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Tallman suggests doing intervals, rather than cycling at a steady state, to get the biggest fat-burning payoff on a stationary bike.
—Amy Marturana, SELF, 11 Dec. 2017
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The country’s leadership remains in a steady state of political crisis.
—Time, 10 Mar. 2020
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And while plenty of concerns remain that job growth could slow too much and turn negative, the current state of the economy — and recent history — support a belief that this steady state can be maintained.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN, 31 Aug. 2023
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