weakling
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“Yale will be regarded either as a beacon and a fighter for academic freedom or as the weakling who succumbed and obeyed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Frankly, the dorky version of Adam is more fun than the heroic He-Man, even with Knight hammering us every minute to laugh that he’s a total weakling.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
Don’t get me wrong: J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI’s legendary founding director, would view Patel as a contemptible weakling.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2025
The U.S. economy is not a 90-pound weakling when it comes to manufacturing muscle.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2023
He watched Caswell’s weakling son named a page, a squire, and finally a knight.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
It is her way of culling the weaklings; she will care only for the cubs that survive the fall and clamber back up to the bridge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Planning is for weaklings, rational analysis is disdained, the amygdala and the gut replace the cerebral cortex.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
Notre Dame should be thrilled that they keep a decent program on their menu of weaklings, and USC should be thrilled that they maintain the tradition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2025
"You are weaklings who fight civilians," Mr Zelensky, who was born in Kryvyi Rih, said in his late night address on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2022
All these so-called rough characters melted into ninety-seven-pound weaklings when confronted by Archie and The Vigils.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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