adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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highly
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So you see, beneath that calm exterior lies a highly unstable child.
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Because of its highly unstable nature, various thromboxane A 2 -generating systems have to be used in order to study its vasoactive properties.
mentally
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But Gore was a sick man. Mentally unstable , he would kill his parents in an explosive night of violence.
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They may be able to help the unbalanced and mentally unstable to become somewhat more balanced and stable, we admit.
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The conventional accounts of violence against women suggest that most men who are violent to women are mentally unstable in some way.
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The woman, who was described as mentally unstable , refused to talk about her reasons for the shooting.
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She hadn't known, until after she was married to Paul, that he had a brother who was mentally unstable .
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Simpson said the lawyers accused her of being mentally unstable .
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The resulting uncertainty as to whether she was coming or going had made her, to some extent, mentally unstable .
too
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Reactions have varied, but it's universally agreed that the preview is way too unstable and slow for everyday use.
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He was not yet five, and her life seemed too unstable there.
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Fears remain, however, that the area is too unstable for any such measures to be effective.
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They were too unstable to be transported.
very
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The situation there remains very unstable .
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These resonant orbits are very unstable .
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It was potentially extremely dangerous and although it had survived since the war it may have been very unstable .
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Handy rejects a full-blown version of this vision on the grounds that such a divergent society would be very unstable .
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For the moment everything seemed calm, but under the surface the whole situation was very unstable .
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Other places, particularly the tropical Far East have been very unstable over the last 15 million years.
■ NOUN
angina
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Contraindications to exercise training include unstable angina pectoris, ventricular arrhythmias, and severe aortic stenosis.
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Sophia has unstable angina and is refusing surgery from which she might benefit.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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an unstable economy
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He is emotionally unstable , and his aggressive attitude often culminates in violence.
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Regimes governed by violence are always unstable .
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That scaffolding looks unstable - get all the building workers off the site immediately.
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Was it safe to trust someone who was so emotionally unstable ?
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Working with Clare every day, I began to realize how unstable she was.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Handy rejects a full-blown version of this vision on the grounds that such a divergent society would be very unstable .
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It was potentially extremely dangerous and although it had survived since the war it may have been very unstable .
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Mentally unstable , he would kill his parents in an explosive night of violence.
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The isotope U-235 is unstable , decaying by a process called spontaneous fission.
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The situation here is precarious, quite unstable .
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The situation there remains very unstable .
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The woman, who was described as mentally unstable , refused to talk about her reasons for the shooting.
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This moves their orbital electrons from the ground state to a higher energy level that is unstable .