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brittle

[brit-l] / ˈbrɪt l /




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This perpetual instability likely led many Israelis, perhaps first and foremost Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to believe that the regime was more brittle than it actually was.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026

We move in a familiar loop: outrage at dysfunction, ritualized critique, then a quiet hope that the same brittle systems will somehow stabilize themselves when the stakes get high.

From Salon • Jan. 24, 2026

"Any dissolution of the coalition essentially would make the right of centre look brittle and fragile and disunited," he told AFP.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

However, Conservative peer Lord Shinkwin, who has rare brittle bone disease osteogenesis imperfecta, argued that peers had already "been generous with our time".

From BBC • Jan. 8, 2026

Even the soil, once rich and brown, had turned brittle and ash gray.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray




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