1
as in delicate
easily broken
attaching the beautiful but fragile ornaments to the Christmas tree is always a touchy operation
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as in sensitive
easily injured without careful handling
babies are fragile, so remember to care for them gently
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as in small
small in degree
a fragile possibility that we might emerge from this fiasco unscathed
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Recent Examples of fragile
Spring onions, onions that have been harvested before the bulb has had a chance to swell, are a bit more fragile than adult onion varieties.
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Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 16 July 2025
Once upon a time, video cameras were both huge and fragile.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2025
What should be a straightforward deployment becomes a complex web of point-to-point connections, making enterprise-wide AI adoption slow, expensive, and fragile.
—Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
One bull takes a chance and runs towards the fence, a fragile 6-foot-tall barrier that separates the crowd from these 2,000 pound monsters.
—Camilla Wright, semafor.com, 11 July 2025
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Stacey Lastoe, Southern Living, 16 July 2025
Once upon a time, video cameras were both huge and fragile.
—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2025
What should be a straightforward deployment becomes a complex web of point-to-point connections, making enterprise-wide AI adoption slow, expensive, and fragile.
—Forbes.com, 15 July 2025
One bull takes a chance and runs towards the fence, a fragile 6-foot-tall barrier that separates the crowd from these 2,000 pound monsters.
—Camilla Wright, semafor.com, 11 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for fragile
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fragile
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Tasters enjoyed Canada Dry’s balance of flavors, noting that its delicate citrus played well with a sharp bitter note on the back of their tongues.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
14 July 2025
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For instance, delicate fabrics like wool, silk, or linen will likely have different washing requirements than white cotton garments.—
Ashlyn Needham,
Southern Living,
12 July 2025
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In Cisco’s 2025 Data Privacy Benchmark, 64% of global respondents worry about inadvertently exposing sensitive information through AI tools, even as nearly half admit to feeding personal data into them.—
Boris Dzhingarov,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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And new privacy legislation in Senate Bill 1295 requires collectors of sensitive data to notify consumers if their personal data is being used to train large language models.—
Angela Eichhorst,
Hartford Courant,
15 July 2025
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The Kitchen by Cooking with Que is open to the public Fridays and Saturdays as a small café. Contact Detroit Free Press food and restaurant writer Susan Selasky and send food and restaurant news and tips to: [email protected].—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
25 July 2025
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Bringing bold wallpaper into a small space can be a fun way to add a bit of a ‘wow’ factor, and that is precisely what Laws did in this 40-square-foot half-bath.—
Lennie Omalza,
The Courier-Journal,
25 July 2025
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Whether your hair is naturally dry or parched from excessive color treatments and heat styling, brittle strands are a stubborn bummer.—
Annie Blackman,
Glamour,
14 July 2025
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Models that aren’t trained that way—like early LLMs trained mainly with vanilla imitation learning—tend to be brittle and error-prone.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
7 July 2025
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Salmonella is a bacterium that can cause severe and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail and elderly people, as well as those with a weakened immune system.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
18 July 2025
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Severe infections are particularly dangerous for young children, frail or elderly people, and those with weakened immune systems.—
Matthew Robinson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 July 2025
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The former is focusing on the general consumer audience as Samsung’s marketing leans into the benefits of AI, while Honor positions the latter as a more fashionable and cutting-edge design due to its slim nature.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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The slim, packable design boasts an unmatched 12 weeks of battery life on a single charge, and it’s fitted with a glare-resistant screen that’ll be easy to read in the sun at the beach.—
Merrell Readman,
Travel + Leisure,
14 July 2025
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Depending on your budget, this may mean only hiring movers to take care of a small portion of your more breakable, bulky or precious items, while teaming up with friends or family to take care of the rest.—
Talia Wexler,
CNBC,
4 July 2025
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Critics of safety standards at Son's former company, Korea Airports Corporation, have asked whether the crash would have been less deadly if the antenna array had been built on a more breakable or movable base.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
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Avoid wrapping leftover cut lemons in aluminum foil, which can react with the acidity in the fruit, causing an off flavor.—
Katie Rosenhouse,
Southern Living,
15 July 2025
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No team could use an off day than the New York Mets.—
John Perrotto,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
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“Fragile.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fragile. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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