fragile

Example Sentences

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Global oil prices rose in Asian morning trade on Thursday as investors watch developments in the fragile US-Iran ceasefire.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

She added that “cease-fires are fragile by nature.”

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

But analysts warn that a huge degree of uncertainty remains, and that the truce is fragile.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

What emerges is not an economy on the brink but one that is increasingly uneven and, in the view of many bankers, growing more fragile beneath the surface.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

People believed that pregnant women were more fragile than we now know they are.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson