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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
unbalance .
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Examples
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Removing sharks, a top predator, from the habitat unbalances ocean ecosystems, as well.
Mindy Pennybacker: Support Bans on the Shark Fin Trade Mindy Pennybacker 2011
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The All Blacks plainly feel the Haka gives them confidence and psychologically unbalances opponents.
The winning secret of Sir Alex Ferguson's lucky underpants | Harry Pearson 2011
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Indeed, in its press release, OPEC warned its members could resort to "voluntary downward adjustments of output" to avoid market unbalances, a code phrase for sagging oil demand amid a global economic slowdown and a pull down prices.
OPEC Accord Helps Balance the Books Benoit Faucon 2011
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Removing sharks, a top predator, from the habitat unbalances ocean ecosystems, as well.
Mindy Pennybacker: Support Bans on the Shark Fin Trade Mindy Pennybacker 2011
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This may be Fugard's own form of self-indictment, but it unbalances the play by putting more stress on Afrikaaner angst than on the reality of black poverty.
The Train Driver – review Michael Billington 2010
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It so unbalances the trust/skepticism balance that political dialogue is hard to carry on.
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The introduction, where we see Lexie kicking her heels in the stifling atmosphere of her Devonshire family before a too-chance encounter with the glamorous, corduroy-suited Innes, feels a little stagey; for all the brilliance of O'Farrell's depictions of new motherhood, the historical plot outshines and unbalances the contemporary one.
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Finland didn't have this problem because it directed its payroll-tax revenues towards a buffer fund which allowed for tax adjustments without creating fiscal unbalances.
Flexible Payroll Tax Could Become Finland's Greatest Export 2010
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King looks at Taylor, Taylor looks down at his guitar --- that unbalances the film until you get used to it, and then you have a fresh appreciation for him as a musician.
Jesse Kornbluth: Carole King & James Taylor's DVD Is An Instant Face-Plant Into Nostalgia 2010
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Never be your partner's therapist as it unbalances the dynamic.
Sophie Keller: How Happy is... 5 Easy Ways To Serve Your Relationship 2009
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