fragility
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Last week, UN deputy special envoy Claudio Cordone told the Security Council that Syria's transition was "at a critical phase, with opportunity and fragility existing side-by-side".
From BBC • Jul. 1, 2026
Countries including China and the United States showed particularly high levels of systemic fragility.
From Science Daily • Jun. 20, 2026
Record-high financing costs and $223 billion in bank equity repo exposure create fragility, making the market vulnerable to higher rates.
From Barron's • Jun. 16, 2026
But then, as the economy and people’s finances normalized in the succeeding years, some borrowers’ underlying fragility eventually resurfaced.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 13, 2026
Who knows, we might even acknowledge the fragility and vulnerability that always accompany high specialization in biology, and movements might start up for the protection of ourselves as a valuable, endangered species.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
Vocabulary lists containing fragility
Give Me a Break!: Fract and Frag
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Unit 2: Pivotal Words and Phrases
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"Animal Wisdom" and "The Last Wolf," Vocabulary from the poems
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