weakly
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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
My bargaining with the moral universe is that I still listen to “Off the Wall,” weakly reasoning that it came out before Jackson launched his Peter Pan act.
From Salon ● May 14, 2026
Before that split, two or more weakly differentiated Homo populations had been exchanging genes for hundreds of thousands of years.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2026
When the match resumed, brawls were still going on in the stands and Morocco’s Brahim Diaz failed to score with a weakly hit penalty kick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
Sofia emerges from her bedroom, sees me, and gives me a hug, holding me for a second longer than normal, and then pulls back, smiling weakly.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
You say, we are likely to grow weaklier, unhealthier.
From Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc by Charles Kingsley
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
You say, we are likely to grow weaklier, unhealthier.
From Health and Education 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
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
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
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
