vulnerable
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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
Yet cancers that originate in skeletal muscle are relatively rare, even though other tissues with substantial regenerative activity can be more vulnerable to cancer.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2026
NRW argues Wales' geography makes it particularly vulnerable - with a vast coastline and "fast-responding" rivers which can fill at speed as rain runs off steep terrain in places like the south Wales valleys.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
If it turned out the person they’d chosen wasn’t a good communicator or was uncomfortable with being vulnerable, they seemed to think time or marriage vows would fix the problem.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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