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A team of veterinarians rushed to assist the visibly feeble creature, giving him water before carrying him away on a stretcher.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

There’s a well-known scene from a 2001 episode of “SpongeBob SquarePants” in which a mob of fish mistakes a feeble old man for a bully and attacks him.

From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026

The Liverpool fans had every right to remind their rivals of their triumph last season, but it was a timely reminder too of how far their side has fallen in a feeble title defence.

From BBC ● May 3, 2026

But the government—with a feeble military, weak economy and fear of stoking internal conflict like the 1975-90 civil war—lacks enforcement capabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

Then the cathode-ray tube glowed like an imitation, feeble TV image; a collage formed, made of apparently random colors, trails, and configurations which, until the handles were grasped, amounted to nothing.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

In a feebler, curious state, falsehoods can take root while truth slips through our hands, and vice versa.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2025

He was atop the gate again during last year’s 70th anniversary celebrations, looking much feebler as he was helped to his feet beside Xi.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2022

The storm surge along the coast was feebler than feared in many places, and the Mississippi River stayed well below the tops of the levees.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2019

Is it any wonder that Rhode Island’s economy is consequently feebler than it should be, leaving its residents with less money in their pockets and fewer opportunities to get ahead?

From Washington Times ● May 18, 2018

She did not answer, but merely crossed out a few of his feebler sentences in a weary sort of way.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

And yet, time and time again, powerful corporations have been allowed to pursue their cases, often all the way to a victory, with the feeblest claims of harm.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2025

But they weakened their endorsement after several members had questions about how well it works in the feeblest of patients, whether boosters will be needed and be effective, and the cost.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

They are all diegetic — actual numbers performed by the characters — and are thus connected to the story, as in a jukebox musical, by only the feeblest of threads.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2022

And yet, even the feeblest nature lovers feel the sap rising, which is surely to the good.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2019

Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us—there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan