stabler

1. comparativecomparative form of stable: more stable

   The number of players will diminish, but the strong players may be stabler after the crisis.”

   2009 March 30, Eric Pfanner, “European Newspapers Find Creative Ways to Thrive in the Internet Age”, in New York Times

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   Yet, let me not reproach myself, since the blame is due to her lightness of heart, her fickle fancy—no stabler than gossamer or thistledown—which the first wanton breath wafts elsewhere.

   1850, Mary Cowden Clarke, The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: A Series of Fifteen Tales

   Here is self-repose, which to our mind is stabler than the Pyramids; here is self-respect, which leads a man to date from his heart more proudly than from Rome.

   1881, George Willis Cooke, Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy, page 234

   Phenol-formaldehyde bonded particleboards were dimensionally stabler than urea bonded particleboards in the decay chamber.

   1980, P. J. Sereda, Durability of Building Materials and Components, page 959

   al-Qaeda's FATA strategy is far less likely to prompt a backlash from local militants and means that the group's position in the FATA is stabler than it ever was in Iraq.

   2013, Peter Bergen, Katherine Tiedemann, editors, Talibanistan: Negotiating the Borders Between Terror, Politics, and Religion

plural stablers

1. A stablekeeper.

plural Stablers · alternative Staebler · alternative Stebler · alternative Stæbler · alternative Stäbler

1. A surname.
   1. countableuncountableA surname originating as an occupation for a stablekeeper.
   2. countableuncountableA surname originating as an occupation derived from the German term for the bearer of a staff of office.
2. countableuncountableA Moravian Anabaptist faction c. 1527.
3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Skamania County, Washington, United States.

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   Synonyms: Hemlock