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

"This makes the tendons more brittle and impairs their mechanical function," explains Greta Moschini, a doctoral student in De Bock and Snedeker's groups and lead author of the study.

From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2026

Running her hand through her brittle white hair, she mimed heating water on a gas stove to wash herself in the cold mornings.

From Barron's • Jan. 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

It had been brittle and barely alive to begin with, like the fallen leaves of Deadwood.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman