chink
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"If anyone sees even a small chink in your armour, they'll think you're playing a game and they'll get rid of you," he says.
From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025
It was a night in which teams in the powerful Trinity League showed a chink in their armor.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2025
In over two decades spent inside Israeli prisons, Sinwar reportedly learned fluent Hebrew and studied Israeli society, and he identified a chink in the armor of his militarily superior adversary.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2024
This lack of response seems to be a chink in the body's armor that Mtb exploits to such devastating effect.
From Science Daily • Jan. 18, 2024
The crack by which he had laid himself had closed together, so that not a chink could be seen.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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