weakly
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Palo Alto found last year that the vast majority of weakly secured internet-connected devices are webcams and digital video recorders.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
There's scant to no clinical evidence supporting such promises, and doctors have voiced concern that endorsing weakly understood if trendy substances could direct patients away from treatments backed by evidence.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
They carry no electric charge, have extremely small masses, and interact only weakly with matter.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026
The article portrays California’s 2026 governor’s race as unusually unsettled and “confounding,” with many voters either undecided or only weakly committed to a choice, even as the primary enters its final weeks.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2026
“It was for a good reason,” Jessie said weakly.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
You say, we are likely to grow weaklier, unhealthier.
From Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc by Charles Kingsley
He was smaller and weaklier than either of you, and Harald could have mastered six like him.
From Problematic Characters A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen
The South American mules were of a weaklier stamp, their poor condition being the result of importation.
From South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 by Louis Creswicke
C. japonica, which can only be obtained from seed, or by cuttings; and the varieties root readily as cuttings, though one or two of the weaklier ones do better if grafted on C. japonica.
From Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by Ernest Thomas Cook
You say, we are likely to grow weaklier, unhealthier.
From Health and Education by Charles Kingsley
The feeblest articles in the weakliest magazines, the very mildest and most conventional novels appear to be the only studies of the majority.
From How to Fail in Literature; a lecture by Andrew Lang
But the dexterous young Wife, gladdest; busiest and weakliest of hopeful creatures, contrived to manage everything, like a Female Fieldmarshal, as she was.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Thomas Carlyle
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