feeble

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The International Monetary Fund said Monday that U.K. economic growth is expected to slow to 1.3% this year, compared with 1.4% in 2025, highlighting the feeble nature of an economic recovery.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

The Indian weather department has labelled the westerly disturbance north India has experienced so far this winter as "feeble" because it could generate very nominal rainfall and snowfall.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2026

If you want to understand her worldview and the feeble attempts human beings make to bring order to a chaotic universe, that essay is the best place to start.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

“Available data sources suggest employers shed jobs in the fourth quarter amid federal layoffs and feeble private hiring,” said Bill Adams, chief economist of Comerica Bank.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 4, 2025

Then the cathode-ray tube glowed like an imitation, feeble TV image; a collage formed, made of apparently random colors, trails, and configurations which, until the handles were grasped, amounted to nothing.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick