vulnerable

“Defendants know children and adolescents are in a developmental stage that leaves them particularly vulnerable to the addictive effects of these features. Defendants target them anyway, in pursuit of additional profit.”

Still, my favorite performance has to be Luna’s, whose Valentin is at once strong and vulnerable, like a mutt attempting to fend off a bear.

Seychelles has the highest wealth per capita in Africa -- around $18,000 according to the World Bank -- but is vulnerable to climate change and faces widespread drug addiction.

And some companies that are more vulnerable to policy changes, either by the narrower nature of their business, or because they had more fragile financial underpinnings, are feeling it.

That made them vulnerable to the mammals that arrived with European settlers in the 19th century.