fragile
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Fragile systems with fewer ecological connections may struggle to withstand additional environmental stress.
From Science Daily • Mar. 2, 2026
"Fragile is the flesh of defenseless populations, tried by so many wars, ongoing or concluded, leaving behind rubble and open wounds," the pope said at the mass in St Peter's Basilica.
From Barron's • Dec. 25, 2025
People with Down syndrome have an extra copy of chromosome 21, for example, and Fragile X syndrome results when the FMR1 gene isn’t expressed.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025
Fragile materials such as primitive cells and microbial mats were buried, squeezed, heated, and fractured as the planet's crust shifted over billions of years.
From Science Daily • Nov. 18, 2025
She remembered what her mother said the day Johnny, husband #3, moved the rest of his guitar collection into the rented U-Haul and drove it away to live with a Hooters waitress named Fragile.
From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray
Vocabulary lists containing fragile
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