brittle
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Think of this as savory frico brittle: buttery Ritz crackers, broken into uneven pebbles and hunks, tossed with Parmesan, herbs and a little fat, then baked until the cheese melts into crisp, golden clusters.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
The control he wields over his movies, which include the 2022 psychological creeper “Enys Men,” is in service of stories with a brittle, intentionally imperfect quality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
A year after the four-day India-Pakistan conflict brought South Asia to the edge of a dangerous escalation, the region has drifted into a brittle and deeply uneasy equilibrium.
From BBC ● May 7, 2026
The old revolutionary story has grown brittle, feeble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
Scrounging in the fridge for a snack, Tricia and Julie were thrilled to find peanut-butter brittle ice cream and Dr. Pepper left behind by Johnson’s daughters.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
Compared to the typical sticky and soft texture, the hybrid rice was firmer and brittler.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 14, 2024
The hybrid rice is apparently a bit firmer and brittler than regular rice, but packs more protein, Matter journal reports.
From BBC ● Feb. 14, 2024
The company found that most of the defects come from an eight-month period in 2007 and 2008, wherein the supplier used nonoptimized resin and made the emblems brittler.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
More immediately serious is a shortage of certain minor essentials such as alloy metals, which meant that the British Army was going to have to be satisfied with brittler steel in its tanks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes, the surface had heated up nicely, but the shank of the screw was about two hundred below zero centigrade, and far brittler than glass.
From The Trouble with Telstar by Schoenherr, John
Ahead of his time, he declined to enforce the brittlest dogmas of the new.
From Time Magazine Archive
Columbia, as the granddad of all the ships, could have been the brittlest of the fleet.
From Time Magazine Archive
We probe minute mischiefs to the quick; we lacerate, tear, and mangle our bosoms with misfortune's finest, brittlest point, and wreak our vengeance on ourselves and it for good and all.
From Table Talk Essays on Men and Manners by Hazlitt, William
Love with white lead cements his wings; White lead was sent us to repair Two brightest, brittlest, earthly things, A lady's face, and China-ware.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Browning, William Ernst
It adds up to trees needing more water, more violent weather events that beat up trees already brittled by drought, and a bonanza of bugs that warmer winters don’t knock back.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2016
He grew hot with rage, while his coffee cooled and his rolls brittled.
From What Will People Say? A novel by Hughes, Rupert
So June budded into July, and July bloomed into August, and August wilted into September, and September brittled and crisped and flamed at last into October.
From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell
Some problems, like the brittling of bone, may have been overcome already.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2014
"Leave off the brittling of the deer," he said, "and to your bows look ye take good heed, For never sith ye were of your mothers born had ye never so mickle need."
From A Bundle of Ballads by Morley, Henry
The glass test tube went brittling out of Sagner's fingers.
From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell
They blew a mort upon the bent; they sembled on sidis shear, To the quarry then the Percy went, to see the brittling of the deer.
From A Bundle of Ballads by Morley, Henry
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