fragile
Example Sentences
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Beijing will not want to jeopardise the fragile trade truce it just signed with the US, but it won't want to lose its foothold in Latin America either.
From BBC
Also, risks in Eastern Europe persist while the security situation in the Middle East is still fragile, the strategist adds.
Qubits are extremely fragile, and the slightest changes in the environment can disrupt their delicate quantum state.
From Barron's
“The housing market is now at a fragile equilibrium, and increasing production will result in falling prices, which is not in anyone’s best interests,” he wrote at the time.
From Barron's
The hand-operated ones are too complicated or too fragile to allow for regular lifting and lowering.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
