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In dirty t-shirts and flimsy sandals, hundreds of unaccompanied minors slept outdoors in a disused industrial park in Ceuta after swimming to the Spanish territory from Morocco, AFP saw Saturday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 1, 2026

The small boats involved in Channel crossings can be overcrowded, too flimsy, and not everyone wears a life jacket, the Crown Prosecution Service said.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

Only so much about the subjects who are made the focus of the program can be discerned from flimsy data that’s some 2,000 years old.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

In the end, all that’s left is another thinly written woman in horror, camouflaged by tongue-in-cheek jokes and flimsy progressive ideas.

From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026

A few other people were waiting on the platform, all of them white and lean, in short, flimsy clothes.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Otto, melodramatically helped by various Black-Fronters, fled the country, started his years of writing and smuggling through revolutionary flimsies and stickers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Army lieutenant in trackman's flimsies stepped into the discus ring.

From Time Magazine Archive

The flimsies don't begin to come in till eleven.

From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert

Letters were letters in those days, and not the notes and cards and "flimsies" of to-day.

From The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone by Tombs, Robert Charles

It was curious to see the contents of those press agent flimsies transcribed on the flaring columns as the livest news obtainable.

From The Whirligig of Time by Williams, Wayland Wells

However, that argument too, is looking flimsier given how expensive AI models are to build for relatively little payoff.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

Many have been enduring temperatures well below freezing in flimsier tent-like units with blue plastic sheeting on the outside and a quilted cotton lining inside.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2023

In fact, she didn’t always rap in her now recognizable deep, rich timbre: Her 2019 mixtape, “Most Likely Up Next,” features a higher, flimsier register, though sparks of her relentless energy start to shine through.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2023

They’re the closest thing Asus has to a MacBook Air competitor, with chassis that are slightly flimsier, touchpads with fancier features, and price tags that are a bit less intimidating.

From The Verge ● Aug. 15, 2022

Then they started snapping their jaws and barking and bashing into the flimsy bars of Duke’s even flimsier cage.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

Beijing has also accused Washington of citing “even the flimsiest connection” such as the use of an American bank to assert jurisdiction over transactions that don’t primarily involve the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Corbet’s desire to stick it to the man takes over the film’s last stretch, which is also its flimsiest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024

When you're rejecting the evidence based on the flimsiest of arguments that don't hold any water at all, that's not skepticism.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2023

“I would certainly not be opting to have this flimsiest of the cases go first,” Diamond said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023

Just four more blocks, but my shoes are held to my feet with the flimsiest of straps; my skirt allows only for short, quick steps.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse