fragile

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“The result is a more fragile setup: positioning can drift higher in calm markets, but is increasingly exposed to rapid de-risking, pointing to weaker support and rising downside risk from systematic flows,” Barclays said.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

Underlying all that is the fragile ego of a state whose outward brassiness is often a cover for an inferiority complex stoked by its glittering neighbor.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

But the meteoric rise of both the Magnificent 7 giants, and the chip producers benefiting from their artificial-intelligence largesse, has started to feel fragile.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

That kind of progress highlights the long term need for precise entangled measurements, because future quantum networks will depend on the ability to create, route, verify, and transfer fragile quantum states.

From Science Daily • May 13, 2026

He had barricaded the most fragile of his convictions—that purely hereditary influences could explain such patterns of accomplishment—from any scientific challenge.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee