frail
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“People have a very difficult time putting themselves in their own future, in their more frail bodies,” Geber said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
—Yields on U.K. government bonds, or gilts, declined after frail GDP data lowered the possibility of the Bank of England raising interest rates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
His house in the Hills remained a sanctuary until his final years, when he was too frail to travel.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Although increasingly frail and confined to a wheelchair, he was actively involved in the staging of a wide-ranging exhibition of his career in Paris in April 2025.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
As the flapping grew louder, the sun’s golden glow tarnished into the frail sheen of moonlight.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
That made it possible for older, frailer patients to survive with “mini-transplants.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
This previously manifested through mostly vibes-based measures: Does his voice sound a little frailer?
From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2025
For the oldest, the improvements were lost entirely, and they were frailer than those of the same age living in the prior decade, experts say.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024
As one patient commented to the subsequent report: "This is hugely beneficial to people on the small islands. Much less upheaval for frailer patients."
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2024
She was smaller and frailer than her sister, but her hair was long and still golden.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
In a long-term care system that subjects some of society’s frailest to daily indignities, Medicaid’s personal needs allowance, as the stipend is called, is among the most ubiquitous, yet least known.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
These are the sickest and frailest patients - the ones who cannot be sent home immediately after treatment.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2022
Unable to speak, Qawasmi, 24, is the frailest of the six.
From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2021
At Life Care, where elderly and sick people come to heal from broken hips and strokes, or simply to live out their frailest years, the death toll has continued to climb.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2020
But he was also the frailest, and when colds or flu or virus infections came around he was the first to catch them and the slowest to recover.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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