weakling
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Former Big Ten weakling Indiana defied all conventional wisdom to become the nation’s only undefeated team and claim its first-ever No. 1 ranking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
Don’t get me wrong: J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI’s legendary founding director, would view Patel as a contemptible weakling.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2025
The U.S. economy is not a 90-pound weakling when it comes to manufacturing muscle.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2023
So on paper, their mayor can beat our mayor in sheer authority, but neither are L.A.’s mayoral powers the 98-pound weakling they’re sometimes made out to be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
He’d feel he was a weakling if he didn’t run; he’d lose face.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
It is her way of culling the weaklings; she will care only for the cubs that survive the fall and clamber back up to the bridge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Planning is for weaklings, rational analysis is disdained, the amygdala and the gut replace the cerebral cortex.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
These are some of the self-deluded weaklings who set the tone of institutional life in much of America today.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2022
"You are weaklings who fight civilians," Mr Zelensky, who was born in Kryvyi Rih, said in his late night address on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2022
“I am tired of having cowards and weaklings as allies,” said Henry.
From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins
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