fragile
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U.S. stock-index futures fell Sunday, after a massive tech selloff on Friday interrupted Wall Street’s two-month rally, and after new developments threatened the fragile cease-fire in the Iran war.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 7, 2026
But first, somebody has to pack it all up — all 3.5 million fossils, each fragile and irreplaceable, like a house move out of a nightmare.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026
This inability to spread risk made U.S. banks, and the economy they served, inherently fragile, with a financial infrastructure prone to amplifying shocks rather than absorbing them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Developments in the Gulf region suggest Israel has reached a cease-fire agreement with Lebanon, but a similar extension of the fragile truce between the U.S. and Iran remains elusive.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
Sometimes the pain of our grief would break through the surface and threaten the fragile friendships we were nurturing.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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