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vulnerability

[vuhl-ner-uh-bil-i-tee] / ˌvʌl nər əˈbɪl ɪ ti /


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Six months later, however, her new EP And All Pride Aside, thrums with emotional vulnerability.

From BBC • Jun. 26, 2026

The safer course, in that view, was to avoid the vulnerability in the first place.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

"All these factors exacerbate vulnerability and raise serious concerns as to whether some of these deaths in ICE custody could have been prevented," said Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights.

From Barron's • Jun. 26, 2026

Engineers have warned that a major vulnerability for California is concrete buildings built to codes that existed in the 1970s or before and that haven’t been retrofitted and are capable of collapsing.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 25, 2026

From then on, I knew that there was a ritual to a street fight, bylaws and codes that, in their very need, attested to all the vulnerability of the black teenage bodies.

From "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates




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