vulnerability
Example Sentences
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“It’s ignoring after you’ve checked out some initial signals. We think of it as constant vigilance over our own vulnerability.”
“We have a narrowing prosperity on both Wall Street and Main Street, and it probably does create a vulnerability. A minority of the participants are accounting for most of the results,” Ablin said.
This transformation allows them to better withstand the stress caused by excess fat, but over time it also increases their vulnerability to becoming cancerous.
From Science Daily
This imbalance not only affects immunity but also increases vulnerability to age-related diseases.
From Science Daily
But building more-reliable supply chains is too expensive and time-consuming for the U.S. to address all vulnerabilities simultaneously.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.