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vulnerability

[vuhl-ner-uh-bil-i-tee] / ˌvʌl nər əˈbɪl ɪ ti /


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“He’s up there with Philip Seymour Hoffman for me. There’s something otherworldly personal about what they gave, such sincerity and vulnerability and an absolute dedication to craft. They leave a mark on your heart.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 23, 2026

But that refusal to risk vulnerability comes back to bite her when the daughter she turned herself inside out to spoil pulls a move reminiscent of Veda in “Mildred Pierce,” betraying Emma for vapid reasons.

From Salon Jul. 19, 2026

"Hathaway is a model of steely self-possession masking vulnerability; Pattinson bites into his character's villainy with gusto."

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

But building alternate routes to give the region’s energy-export system more resilience will take billions of dollars, and the pipelines meant to bypass the strait and its vulnerability could themselves become targets.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

Recognizing the enemy’s vulnerability, the Allies seized the opportunity to make a stand along the Marne.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

IBM has also sunk $5 billion into a project called Lightwell, which uses AI to find and help fix vulnerabilities in open-source software.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

"It did not just attack Hugging Face. It actually attacked its internal system to exploit its own vulnerabilities," Abbass said.

From Barron's Jul. 22, 2026

It said it has now closed the vulnerabilities highlighted by the incident and rebuilt the affected systems.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

The White House isn’t accusing the Times of fabricating a story about the plane’s vulnerabilities.

From Salon Jul. 15, 2026

I am not a congenitally fearful person, for which you can blame or credit my mother, who never got around to alerting me to any special vulnerabilities that went with being a girl.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich




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