frail
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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
Dame Esther, who is 86 and terminally ill with cancer, said that though she had planned to end her life at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland, she is now too frail to travel.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
David Kissinger said that as his father declined in the months before his death at the age of 100, Nancy was in a frail state as well.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
“Never,” said he, as he ground his teeth, “never was anything at once so frail and so indomitable. A mere reed she feels in my hand!”
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
To date, 78 of Ukraine’s frailest Holocaust survivors, of whom there are some 10,000, have been evacuated.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
Unable to speak, Qawasmi, 24, is the frailest of the six.
From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 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
He was kneeling by the Zanies, the frailest ones, the fuse-points; both of them lay huddled up on the floor.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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