vulnerable
Example Sentences
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The lion doesn’t go after the strongest, he said, “they find the one that they think is weaker, more vulnerable, and that’s the one that they get.”
He said his school served "one of the most deprived catchments in Somerset" and previously said he thought the change "would hit the most vulnerable pupils the hardest".
From BBC
The court heard two of Kingsley's victims were recently divorced, and were emotionally vulnerable when they met her.
From BBC
The DRC, one of the poorest countries in the world, is particularly vulnerable to global oil price fluctuations.
From Barron's
“What matters now is not only the volume lost, but the precedent set. Once critical Gulf energy infrastructure is seen as vulnerable, buyers will price that risk for longer than the initial outage itself.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
