brittle
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A year after the four-day India-Pakistan conflict brought South Asia to the edge of a dangerous escalation, the region has drifted into a brittle and deeply uneasy equilibrium.
From BBC • May 7, 2026
One problem, though: Untreated rubber becomes brittle when exposed to cold, and tacky and runny when hot.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026
When stretched, solids elongate until they reach a critical stress point, then break suddenly in a process known as brittle fracture.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 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
Clare raced alongside her, ignoring the clench of his undead lungs, the crunch of his brittle, undead bones, trying to measure a way to pull her out.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
Vocabulary lists containing brittle
"Of Mice and Men"
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