vulnerable

Example Sentences

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The smartphone’s monopoly on our attention is vulnerable in the AI age.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

The area's mountainous geography makes it doubly vulnerable.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

She typically acts unbothered, but on this vulnerable track, she sheds a little light on her lover girl personality as she romanticizes all the ways she wants to build a life with a new man.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Again, not a word about the coercive therapeutic context in which vulnerable minors will be subjected to those “ideas” and pressed to implement them.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026

He wraps his arms around my back, and I wrap my arms around his shoulders, and he feels warm and solid, strong and vulnerable, familiar and new.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison