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vulnerable

[vuhl-ner-uh-buhl] / ˈvʌl nər ə bəl /


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Brundage had identified 11 of the largest residential proxy companies, including Ipidea, that were vulnerable to the bug, and began drafting emails to them explaining how to fix the problem.

From The Wall Street Journal • 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

It often begins in more vulnerable market corners, such as software, before quietly spreading.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

Anyone who favored a strong executive was vulnerable to the charge of being a quasi-monarchist, and therefore a traitor to the republican principles of the American Revolution.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis