weak link
Example Sentences
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“Italy is Europe’s weak link when it comes to energy because it is so dependent on energy imports.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
Her production of “Ragtime,” with its sumptuous score by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, had nary a weak link in a cast of characters among the most expansive in the recent annals of musicals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025
I, like many others, thought he would be the weak link against City, and expected Erling Haaland to get away from him and score.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2024
The lack of security ties between Japan and South Korea had been seen a major weak link in Asia.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2024
This weak link is made even weaker by glancing back to a recent decade, the 1960s, when the economy went on a wild growth spurt—as did violent crime.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
