as in fragile
chronically or repeatedly suffering from poor health
a weakly baby who required repeated hospitalizations
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weakly
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But limited data and the fragile condition of the fossils make a detailed comparison difficult, officials said.Peter Guo, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2024
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These unrelated and geographically dispersed examples underscore the pharmaceutical industry's reliance on fragile supply chains, highlighting the urgent need for a reevaluation and restructuring.Oyku Ilgar, Forbes, 23 Oct. 2024
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His efforts have been challenged by weak consumer sentiment in countries including the US and China.Owen Tripp, Fortune Europe, 24 Oct. 2024
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Beijing can mitigate this with more stimulus, export controls and a weaker currency, although these steps carry risks such as capital flight, debt and further trade conflict.David Kirton, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2024
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At a time when post-menopausal women still are stereotyped as dependent and frail, Kim’s film is a refreshing reality check.Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 11 Oct. 2024
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The spirit of resistance may prove too frail, and too exhausted, to rise again to the contest.Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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Sugar and other ingredients in Halloween treats can cast a sickly spell on the trillions of microorganisms that reside in your gut, collectively known as the gut microbiome.Christopher Damman, Discover Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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The same sickly rainbow sheen goes across his eye and then hers.James Grebey, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2024
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What applies to one artist thus applies across the board to an entire swath of artists who are, again in a very broad sense, deemed similarly historically valid or invalid.Gordon Hughes, Artforum, 1 Nov. 2024
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But others are either invalid from the start or outdated for the 21st century.Nell Derick Debevoise, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
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All but one of those patients had been exposed to sick cattle or poultry on farms.Erika Edwards, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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There is no cure for a sick heart, definitely not in Ferrante’s universe, where desire burns down to an ember that lingers, waiting to be fanned and catch fire.Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
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Low wages, high youth unemployment and a feeble social safety net mean China’s household spending is less than 40% of annual economic output, some 20 percentage points below the global average.Reuters, CNN, 11 Oct. 2024
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The economy has been weighed down by the weakness of its industrial sector amid Russia’s shutdown in natural gas supplies after the invasion of Ukraine, as well as feeble Chinese demand and the car industry’s difficulties in pivoting to electric vehicles.Eleanor Pringle, Fortune Europe, 8 Oct. 2024
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“Weakly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weakly. Accessed 17 Nov. 2024.
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