stablyadverb
/ˈsteɪ.bli//ˈsteɪ.bli/in a way that is firm or firmly fixed, or not likely to move or change:
Young people were advised to delay having children until at least one parent was stably employed.
specialized chemistry in a way that keeps the same chemical or atomic state:
Na and K can be stably removed if other ions of the same charge are added in their place.
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- The company says its wind farm would provide pollution-free, stably priced electricity for decades.
- I think the American-Chinese relationship will probably go on relatively stably.
- We had to make sure we ran the economy stably in case there was a downturn.
- The research includes married couples and "stably cohabiting couples".
- The physicochemical architecture of the antigen-binding groove dictates how stably a lipid ligand binds CD1d.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Keeping and staying the same
- consistency
- consistent
- continuum
- control
- fastness
- firm
- flat
- invariant
- leave
- leave well alone idiom
- level
- level off
- remain
- seamless
- stable
- steady
- unchanged
- undisturbed
- wallow in sth
- wouldn't have it any other way idiom
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