Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not stable; unstable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not stable; not standing fast or firm; unstable; prone to change or recede from a purpose; mutable; inconstant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Exhibiting
instability ;unstable
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Examples
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Eventually, the phone company assessed that the line was "instable" and sent a man to have a look at it.
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Eventually, the phone company assessed that the line was "instable" and sent a man to have a look at it.
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I'm running the last "instable" version of Debian KDE 4.1 ... reply to this goto page: prev
KDE-Look.org Content 2009
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Gee, when you're counting on a country whose government is as instable as the one you're fighting a war in, I'd say you're doomed to fail.
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I see some killers that are instable in the first place and get pushed over the edge by mitigating factors such as religion, politics, and personal beliefs.
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If anything the fact that the USL is instable should be a reason to celebrate our rise to MLS.
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The poor countries with a horrible instable political sytstem and a very uneducated population are the ones where politicians popularity is the least correlated with a match in political leaning.
Matthew Yglesias » Presidential Opinion Polarization on the Rise 2010
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Their names read probably like a Who is Who of instable American corporate and political power.
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Are you not careful with your words or do you really believe that the climate would become instable with more CO2?
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Even as it has an important message about the cost and consequences of the Military-Industrial Complex running hog wild and the instable third world that provides a endless canvas for the unfolding of human tragedy, the movie itself has more than sufficient dollops of humor, humanity and sheer entertainment to make it a movie well worth your time even without a sprained ankle.
December 2008 2008
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