weakling
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“Yale will be regarded either as a beacon and a fighter for academic freedom or as the weakling who succumbed and obeyed.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
My mother was the weakling; my father was the smartest person in the room.
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2024
So on paper, their mayor can beat our mayor in sheer authority, but neither are L.A.’s mayoral powers the 98-pound weakling they’re sometimes made out to be.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2022
“I’ve never seen anyone go after a 50-pound weakling with the same ferocity he goes after a 500-pound rhinoceros.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 2021
I knew I’d never be as strong as my grandfather, but I wasn’t a gutless weakling, either.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
It is her way of culling the weaklings; she will care only for the cubs that survive the fall and clamber back up to the bridge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Planning is for weaklings, rational analysis is disdained, the amygdala and the gut replace the cerebral cortex.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
"You are weaklings who fight civilians," Mr Zelensky, who was born in Kryvyi Rih, said in his late night address on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2022
He’s 0-3 against rival Iowa and a combined 3-4 against Big Ten West weaklings Purdue and Illinois.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2021
“Some will. Not all. We have our cowards and our knaves, our weaklings and our fools, as do they.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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