fragile

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Many China hawks in the administration have taken to gallows humor, calling the shift the ‘Busan Freeze,’ named for the South Korea meeting between the leaders that produced a fragile trade detente.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

Cease-fires give hope even if temporary, tenuous and fragile.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

His visit comes as a fragile ceasefire pausing the Iranian conflict has come under strain, with disagreements over whether the truce covered Lebanon.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

But he said his perspective on life remains rooted: "We live on a fragile planet in the vacuum and the void of space."

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

And, of course, as replication became the test, historical facts, which had once seemed so solid and reliable, came to seem increasingly fragile and tenuous.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton