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Consumer electronics giant Sony last week also hiked its annual profit forecast, helped by strong sales in its video games division -- and the feeble yen.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

The film "mucks up Orwell", according to the Wall Street Journal,, external who surmised: "As comedy, the movie is feeble, and as allegory for the socioeconomically literate it is heavy-handed."

From BBC ● Jul. 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

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

Ma enjoyed the singing but clearly felt foolish in her feeble miming.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

He could not even explain satisfactorily why he had decided against it: Every time he tried to reconstruct the internal arguments that had led to his decision, they sounded feebler to him.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" 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

“It emits the feeblest of light and needs a vast darkness around it to attract its prey.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021

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