frail

During Weinstein’s trial last year, prosecutor Nicole Blumberg told the jury that, in contrast to the producer’s frail appearance in court, he once exercised enormous control over the entertainment industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

There are exemptions for being a parent to young children, serving as a caregiver or being medically frail.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

The 86-year-old said she was too frail to travel to an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland as she had planned to, saying: "Everything I didn't want to happen I'm having to go through now."

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

He last appeared in public at a May 1 event in front of the US embassy in Havana, where he appeared frail, and was shown on state television at events in June.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

My father began to cough again, the deep, dry, racking cough that shook his frail body and frightened me terribly.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

That made it possible for older, frailer patients to survive with “mini-transplants.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

This previously manifested through mostly vibes-based measures: Does his voice sound a little frailer?

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2025

“The man is frailer than he looks,” Dan said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2024

It raises questions of the drug's "real-world" effectiveness in older, frailer people with multiple health conditions, and even "mixed" dementia which could be part Alzheimer's and part another disease.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2024

Mama Lessie became weaker and frailer with each passing day.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

These tend to be the sickest and frailest patient - and this wait comes after they have already waited to be seen in the first place after arriving at A&E.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2024

Unable to speak, Qawasmi, 24, is the frailest of the six.

From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2021

“Even people in their frailest state, in a wheelchair about ready to pass any day were coming out,” said Roxy.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 18, 2021

At Life Care, where elderly and sick people come to heal from broken hips and strokes, or simply to live out their frailest years, the death toll has continued to climb.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2020

But he was also the frailest, and when colds or flu or virus infections came around he was the first to catch them and the slowest to recover.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien