fragile

Example Sentences

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Like hundreds of other villages in Greenland, now caught up in a geopolitical storm, the settlement depends on a fragile and costly telecommunications network.

From Barron's

However, “a pause makes sense when the decision leans on leverage, timing, or fragile assumptions.”

From MarketWatch

These are "not insignificant" effects in a context of "fairly fragile global economic growth", he added.

From Barron's

You can tell that it has given him a sense of how fragile it all is and how grateful he is to be where he is now.

From The Wall Street Journal

The girl’s bony shoulders felt as fragile as a bird’s wing under my hand, and I released it and stepped back.

From Literature