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stabilize
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stabilize [′stā·bə‚līz]
(textiles)
To treat a fabric to prevent it from shrinking and stretching.


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The efforts of practitioners to enable young people to stabilise their circumstances and prevent or restrict the deterioration of mental health is valued equally to work that facilitates observable improvement.
they are capable of carrying their negative connotations only because they function, in fact, as the signifiers of a deeper code--the genetic--which cannot be seen but which, it is believed, has the power of science to fix and stabilise racial difference.
In "high threshold" challenges, the forward-deployed, afloat first echelon would be launched ashore with a view to shaping conditions for the entry of and succession by follow-up forces in the meantime, to the best of its ability, the first echelon would contain and stabilise the situation.
 
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