brittle

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Among the archives are brittle and faded hand-drawn field maps plus more than 150,000 soil and rock samples.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

We move in a familiar loop: outrage at dysfunction, ritualized critique, then a quiet hope that the same brittle systems will somehow stabilize themselves when the stakes get high.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

"Any dissolution of the coalition essentially would make the right of centre look brittle and fragile and disunited," he told AFP.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

When the rock loses this water, it becomes weaker and more brittle.

From Science Daily • Jan. 1, 2026

The pages weren’t as brittle or as old as they looked, which made Danny think that there was definitely some sort of magic laced in the paper or ink.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova