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US
/ˈsteɪbəˌɫaɪzɪŋ/
]
ADJECTIVE
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causing to become stable
the family is one of the great stabilizing elements in society
How To Use stabilizing In A Sentence
- The complementary substances or substituent groups with which these nuclei are more or less firmly combined in nature exert a stabilizing and perhaps otherwise favorable influence on the curative nucleus, but do not themselves possess the vitamine type of physiological potency. The Vitamine Manual
- Stripped naked of additives and processes, save a pinch of stabilising sulphur dioxide for all but the purists, the finished product is surprising and fractious. Times, Sunday Times
- Nato is being buffeted by destabilising forces from within and without. Times, Sunday Times
- Religion, rather than rigidifying our political ideologies and psychological orientations, ought to be destabilizing our certainties, as certainty is too often an enemy of compassion. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- While shifting to billiards is too provocative for Washington, if trends continue, it may soon find itself behind the eight ball with few options for maintaining its stabilizing role in the region. Billiards in the South China Sea
- The news had a destabilizing effect on the stock market.
- The state of almost permanent warfare within the establishment is destabilising every aspect of government.
- Though caste often performed this stabilizing economic function, its origin was political and its sanction religious.
- And what opponents of the United States could not be delighted that the current administration, in the name of unrealizable ideals, has made a project of destabilizing the whole world by abandoning friendly countries and allies because it is too delicate and self-concerned to tolerate that they are at times unsavory? Memorial Day Beyond Stone and Steel
- If mongrel species represent genetic novelty and are stabilizing components of their ecosystems, are they not worth saving?