Achilles heel

Example Sentences

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The Achilles’ heel of Chinese industrial policy is its cost and waste.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

President Donald Trump will want to avoid at all costs a prolonged surge in oil prices, which would become his political Achilles' heel.

From Barron's • Mar. 10, 2026

As he notes, "this same virtue had become their experimental Achilles' heel: how do you "read" or "detect" a property that doesn't reside at any specific point?"

From Science Daily • Feb. 16, 2026

Also, European investors’ accumulation of U.S. assets over the past 15 years is not necessarily “the Achilles’ heel of the dollar,” in their view.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 20, 2026

Armed with 2,400 years' worth of extra mathematics, it is not hard for us to go back and find Zeno’s Achilles’ heel.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife