brittle
Example Sentences
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When stretched, solids elongate until they reach a critical stress point, then break suddenly in a process known as brittle fracture.
From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026
Confidence in the software sector is brittle and AI fears are dominating investor sentiment.
From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026
As societies emerged, we began to develop egos, those brittle parts of our selves taxed with negotiating between our primal urges and the constraints of a civilized order.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 3, 2026
We move in a familiar loop: outrage at dysfunction, ritualized critique, then a quiet hope that the same brittle systems will somehow stabilize themselves when the stakes get high.
From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026
He knew that she had been born with brittle bones, and that she got fractures easily, and that two of her six children and two of her grandchildren also had the condition.
From "Forged by Fire" by Sharon M. Draper
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"Of Mice and Men"
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