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"He joins 16 other pilots sentenced in just three months for endangering lives with flimsy, overcrowded dinghies," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

According to testimony from the two survivors, their flimsy boat began to deflate and take on water after several hours at sea.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

But the characterizations are too flimsy, the world only moderately textured.

From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026

So the possibility that A.I. might help is admittedly a flimsy source of comfort.

From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026

A few other people were waiting on the platform, all of them white and lean, in short, flimsy clothes.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Otto, melodramatically helped by various Black-Fronters, fled the country, started his years of writing and smuggling through revolutionary flimsies and stickers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Army lieutenant in trackman's flimsies stepped into the discus ring.

From Time Magazine Archive

If there are no flimsies, the leaf opposite a plate often shows a set-off from it and is sometimes specially badly foxed.

From Fine Books by Alfred W. (Alfred William) Pollard

"So I supposed," growled the grizzled old man, who sat at a big desk upon which was piled many flimsies.

From The Lost Naval Papers by Bennet Copplestone

Every night he and the other sub-editors, young and unhealthy-looking men, sat round a big table, handling "flimsies" and scribbling rapidly.

From The Foolish Lovers by St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine

However, that argument too, is looking flimsier given how expensive AI models are to build for relatively little payoff.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

Many have been enduring temperatures well below freezing in flimsier tent-like units with blue plastic sheeting on the outside and a quilted cotton lining inside.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2023

In fact, she didn’t always rap in her now recognizable deep, rich timbre: Her 2019 mixtape, “Most Likely Up Next,” features a higher, flimsier register, though sparks of her relentless energy start to shine through.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2023

They’re the closest thing Asus has to a MacBook Air competitor, with chassis that are slightly flimsier, touchpads with fancier features, and price tags that are a bit less intimidating.

From The Verge ● Aug. 15, 2022

The old mansion still stands deep within this property, though most of the flimsier structures around it have been swallowed by time and the elements.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

Suspects were swept up in Afghanistan or Pakistan, often on the flimsiest of tip-offs.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

But it’s just as much about journalistic malpractice, ethical outrages and the besmearing of reputations on the flimsiest of evidence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025

Corbet’s desire to stick it to the man takes over the film’s last stretch, which is also its flimsiest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024

And in this modern era of ubiquitous social media and technology, when there’s the impulse to make people famous for even the flimsiest of reality-TV reasons?

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

Just four more blocks, but my shoes are held to my feet with the flimsiest of straps; my skirt allows only for short, quick steps.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse