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feeble

[fee-buhl] / ˈfi bəl /


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While some of these ideas may be profoundly relatable — and thus, personally meaningful — that doesn’t make the observations or their executions within Schoenbrun’s feeble film profound in and of themselves.

From Salon Aug. 26, 2026

But his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party made little headway improving the country's finances, with galloping inflation, crippling debt and a feeble rupee undermining economic reform.

From Barron's Aug. 18, 2026

The film "mucks up Orwell", according to the Wall Street Journal,, external who surmised: "As comedy, the movie is feeble, and as allegory for the socioeconomically literate it is heavy-handed."

From BBC Jul. 13, 2026

Most of his defenders found this argument to be feeble.

From Slate Apr. 15, 2026

Arcady—he had called his new country after his old—was a feeble state, he said, and could do little to help the Trojans.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

In a feebler, curious state, falsehoods can take root while truth slips through our hands, and vice versa.

From Salon Jun. 7, 2025

He was atop the gate again during last year’s 70th anniversary celebrations, looking much feebler as he was helped to his feet beside Xi.

From Seattle Times Nov. 30, 2022

The storm surge along the coast was feebler than feared in many places, and the Mississippi River stayed well below the tops of the levees.

From Washington Post Jul. 14, 2019

Is it any wonder that Rhode Island’s economy is consequently feebler than it should be, leaving its residents with less money in their pockets and fewer opportunities to get ahead?

From Washington Times May 18, 2018

The sea breeze cooled the sun, too, which shone whiter and feebler against aging clouds.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

And yet, time and time again, powerful corporations have been allowed to pursue their cases, often all the way to a victory, with the feeblest claims of harm.

From Slate Jun. 20, 2025

But they weakened their endorsement after several members had questions about how well it works in the feeblest of patients, whether boosters will be needed and be effective, and the cost.

From Seattle Times Jun. 29, 2023

They are all diegetic — actual numbers performed by the characters — and are thus connected to the story, as in a jukebox musical, by only the feeblest of threads.

From New York Times Nov. 27, 2022

“It emits the feeblest of light and needs a vast darkness around it to attract its prey.”

From Washington Post Nov. 30, 2021

Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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