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stabilize

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Meaning

support or hold steady and make steadfast, with or as if with a brace

make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium

become stable or more stable

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Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism. David Harvey

For our country to be safe from terrorists we must stabilize Iraq and show that it can be done and take out these terrorist organizations who would harm Americans. Our freedom is at stake here. Kay Bailey Hutchison

We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation's social insurance program, one of our most popular and effective federal programs that has remained dependable and stable for the past 70 years. Grace Napolitano

Scientists worldwide agree that the reduction needed to stabilize the climate is actually more like 80 percent. Donella Meadows

I refuse to start from the assumption that the role of monetary policy is to control and stabilize inflation. The only acceptable way to start is, I believe, to think of the goal of monetary policy, together with fiscal policy,as the maximization of welfare. Olivier Blanchard

Before Paul and I started the company, we had been involved in some large-scale software projects that were real disasters. They just kept pouring people in, and nobody knew how they were going to stabilize the project. We swore to ourselves that we would do better. Bill Gates

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