brittleness
Example Sentences
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But in addition to exposing Kennedy’s limits, Trump’s pro-Roundup order—and MAHA’s reaction to it—revealed a brittleness to the movement as a whole.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2026
“External wars tend to strengthen revolutionary regimes in their early years, but military humiliations expose the brittleness of late-stage dictatorships.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
It is back to that idea again: volatility and brittleness everywhere.
From BBC • Sep. 26, 2024
However, their weakness has always been their brittleness.
From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2023
He was living to be one hundred years old and played a smoothly fluent game of billiards that contrasted with his own ninety-four-year-old brittleness.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
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Structure and Properties of Matter - Middle School
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Structure and Properties of Matter - Introductory
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Structure and Properties of Matter - High School
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