fragile
Example Sentences
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That leaves the BOJ in a familiar bind: Hike too soon and risk clipping fragile growth, or hold back and risk damaging household confidence, plus U.S. scrutiny if the yen weakens excessively.
“While the situation remains highly uncertain and fragile, we expect banks to take provision overlays in upcoming results, with impairment charges likely to rise vis-à-vis our current base case,” Macquarie says.
But in Tawila, an AFP journalist gathered rare testimonies from five former detainees, speaking to them inside fragile shelters of straw and tattered fabric.
From Barron's
Although orbital angular momentum entanglement has been widely explored, it has often been considered fragile.
From Science Daily
This “fragile decade” of preretirement years leading up to retirement and the first five years after you stop working are critical to get right.
From MarketWatch
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