flimsy

Mohammed Annour spent much of his youth living in a flimsy shelter in a dusty, overcrowded refugee camp in east Africa, where the days were long, the food was poor and the future nonexistent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

And now researchers are warning that even this flimsy record of how these powerful technologies operate might become less reliable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

"He joins 16 other pilots sentenced in just three months for endangering lives with flimsy, overcrowded dinghies," she said.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

According to testimony from the two survivors, their flimsy boat began to deflate and take on water after several hours at sea.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

The flimsy binds were a silly thing to take comfort in—they’d do nothing if Diko's mood soured—but he was subdued, at least for now.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray

Army lieutenant in trackman's flimsies stepped into the discus ring.

From Time Magazine Archive

Otto, melodramatically helped by various Black-Fronters, fled the country, started his years of writing and smuggling through revolutionary flimsies and stickers.

From Time Magazine Archive

There may be a chance," commented Faust, scratching his fat poll meditatively; "the fellows like to keep these big bills, they're easier in the pocket than a whole bundle of flimsies.

From Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser

Fancy us wearin’ skirts an’ things made o’ them flimsies!

From The Law-Breakers by Ridgwell Cullum

Well, two ugly dogs came in, and said, 'Let us see the flimsies, before you see the kid.'

From A Simpleton by Charles Reade

However, that argument too, is looking flimsier given how expensive AI models are to build for relatively little payoff.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

Many have been enduring temperatures well below freezing in flimsier tent-like units with blue plastic sheeting on the outside and a quilted cotton lining inside.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2023

“It gets turned into a piece of lace, he says. It gets turned into this much flimsier thing, a thing full of holes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2023

They’re the closest thing Asus has to a MacBook Air competitor, with chassis that are slightly flimsier, touchpads with fancier features, and price tags that are a bit less intimidating.

From The Verge ● Aug. 15, 2022

The old mansion still stands deep within this property, though most of the flimsier structures around it have been swallowed by time and the elements.

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

Suspects were swept up in Afghanistan or Pakistan, often on the flimsiest of tip-offs.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Beijing has also accused Washington of citing “even the flimsiest connection” such as the use of an American bank to assert jurisdiction over transactions that don’t primarily involve the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Corbet’s desire to stick it to the man takes over the film’s last stretch, which is also its flimsiest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024

And in this modern era of ubiquitous social media and technology, when there’s the impulse to make people famous for even the flimsiest of reality-TV reasons?

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

But my mother was loath to pass up even the flimsiest excuse for a celebration—she once invited friends over for our cockatiel’s birthday—in part because she loved to show off our house.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs