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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of destabilize.

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Examples

  • To say that both governments were destabilized is to compliment the Khmer Rouge.

    Pakistan may lose the war in Afghanistan Richard Cohen 2010

  • If Israel were actually stabilizing the middle east I'd understand .... but the major reason the middle east seems destabilized is BECAUSE of the Palestinian situation.

    Palin warns of 'Second Holocaust' if Iran gains nuclear weapons 2010

  • Bludgeoning someone in the head is more like you get kind of destabilized and erratic and you get into an argument and you hit them over the head and it ` s more primitive.

    CNN Transcript Jun 12, 2008 2008

  • I can even understand people who say these bombings prove the American invasion has "destabilized" Iraq, never mind that 82 deaths probably equals an average day in Saddam's old torture chambers.

    Daimnation!: 82 2003

  • (Dashnaktsutyun), Vahan Hovannisian, claims that the Nabucco gas pipeline project bypassing Armenia has "destabilized" Georgia.

    «Ազատ Եվրոպա/Ազատություն» ռադիոկայան 2010

  • For-profit colleges have "destabilized" the industry, she said, and have "taken needed tax dollars away from public higher education."

    Wired Campus 2010

  • For-profit colleges have "destabilized" the industry, she said, and have "taken needed tax dollars away from public higher education."

    Wired Campus 2010

  • But uncontrolled immigration could allow Britain to be "destabilized" and the creation of

    Assyrian International News Agency 2010

  • Goldman also accused the defectors of telling Goldman clients that the defections had "destabilized" the Atlanta office, which is in the same building as Credit Suisse's wealth managers.

    Moneycontrol Top Headlines Moneycontrol.com editor@moneycontrol.com 2010

  • Goldman also accused the defectors of telling Goldman clients that the defections had "destabilized" the Atlanta office, which is in the same building as Credit Suisse's wealth managers.

    Moneycontrol Top Headlines Moneycontrol.com editor@moneycontrol.com 2010

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