fragile
Example Sentences
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Cumulatively, Ms. Riley evokes fragile feelings of vulnerability and longing among her characters, while gesturing toward a potential for contentedness in community and intellectual integrity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
If the Strait of Hormuz reopens and energy markets calm down, he said, the recent inflation spike should prove manageable and his focus would return to a labor market he views as increasingly fragile.
From Barron's • Apr. 17, 2026
For one, the truce that enabled this reopening remains fragile.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026
On the plains of northwestern Iran, edged by snow-ribboned ridges, spring nudges almond trees into frothy bloom and a fragile ceasefire brings more traffic onto highways, and more Iranians back to their homeland.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026
Her voice sounded so fragile, nothing like the Ishtar I thought I knew.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
Vocabulary lists containing fragile
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