vulnerable
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A former Metropolitan Police detective, investigated for sexually exploiting vulnerable crime victims it was his job to protect, later lied about the death of his wife in a Barbados hotel room, BBC Panorama has learned.
From BBC ● Nov. 15, 2026
"Simply comparing super agers with such a heterogeneous population makes it challenging to define what is critical in terms of resilient or vulnerable brain patterns."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2026
The incident is the latest in recent months to show how the modern economy is vulnerable to outages in widely used tech systems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
He will also go to Callao, where as Prevost he delivered food and aid to vulnerable communities.
From Barron's ● Nov. 13, 2026
And I’d seen eggs laid, bloody puppies wet and shimmery, calves encased in a blue bubble, slippery wet ponies thin and vulnerable, and hundreds of pink piglets suckling engorged teats.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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