weakness
Example Sentences
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But the team’s youth and inexperience proved to be a strength, not a weakness.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
Keeping India's external balances under control while preventing further rupee weakness will be the "key macroeconomic challenge" this year, India's chief economic adviser, V Anantha Nageswaran, said recently.
From BBC • May 14, 2026
According to the minutes, central bank officials agreed that businesses would initially have difficulty passing along higher costs to customers due to the weakness in the labor market and excess spare capacity in the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
That could mean selling when a sector shows weakness with little hope for a turnaround, or knowing when to trim a position.
From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026
A weakness, beginning inwardly, extending to the limbs, seized me, and I fell: I lay on the ground some minutes, pressing my face to the wet turf.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
Vocabulary lists containing weakness
Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ness
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Unit 1, Week 4
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The Suffix -ness, Part 1
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