1
as in fatigue
the quality or state of lacking physical strength or vigor
the flu left me with such overwhelming weakness that I could hardly stand
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as in softness
the quality or state of lacking strength of will or character
in a moment of weakness he said yes to his daughter's request for a new toy
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as in fault
a defect in character
his one weakness is his cockeyed optimism about everything
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as in vulnerability
the quality or state of having little resistance to some outside agent
the devastating weakness of the immune system that is experienced by people with certain chronic conditions
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Recent Examples of weakness
Defending corners, a source of weakness this season, was not a problem.
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James Horncastle, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
When fake apps like Mobdro are combined with these weaknesses, users are left exposed.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
From birth, they are conditioned to believe that strength means silence and vulnerability is weakness.
—Essence, 23 Oct. 2025
Companies are driving innovation by pinpointing weaknesses in existing products and transforming them to meet specific application needs.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 23 Oct. 2025
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James Horncastle, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
When fake apps like Mobdro are combined with these weaknesses, users are left exposed.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
From birth, they are conditioned to believe that strength means silence and vulnerability is weakness.
—Essence, 23 Oct. 2025
Companies are driving innovation by pinpointing weaknesses in existing products and transforming them to meet specific application needs.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 23 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for weakness
Noun
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Researchers highlighted the current challenges for OCTOID, including slow thermal response and potential fatigue of CLCEs, and the weight of nichrome wires limiting flexibility.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Oct. 2025
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Hoka Women’s Transport Shoes This cushy shoe is designed with a rocker bottom that pushes you into your next step, putting off foot fatigue for longer.—
Jasmine Gomez,
Travel + Leisure,
25 Oct. 2025
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This creates a subtle warmth and tactile softness, making the chair ideal for daily use in living rooms, home offices, or family common areas.—
William Jones,
USA Today,
27 Oct. 2025
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With its feather and down filling, this pillow blends softness and support.—
Shea Simmons,
Southern Living,
26 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Her trauma is not your fault or responsibility.—
Hannah Sacks,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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These are real kids, caught in difficult circumstances and are in the foster care system through no fault of their own.—
Laura Rivera,
Denver Post,
23 Oct. 2025
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But tragedies like these also reflect the vulnerability of this refugee population – with the overall reduction in support causing a cascade effect for those already living on a knife edge of survival.—
Rebecca Wright,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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That said, vulnerabilities in its Comet browser are cause for concern.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
25 Oct. 2025
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As my exhaustion broke the spell of curiosity, the narrative appealed to me.—
Jim Beaugez,
CNN Money,
23 Oct. 2025
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Is that your way of expressing the anger and exhaustion that so many people feel in the country right now?—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
23 Oct. 2025
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Various studies have proved that popular commercial VPNs have alarming shortcomings.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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The state of play in restaurant stocks, in particular, exemplifies the shortcomings of a purely top-down view.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
22 Oct. 2025
Noun
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While pregnancy at any age sparks a host of rapid breast changes that may temporarily up your cancer risk in the few years immediately following, facing those fluctuations at age 35-plus—when your baseline susceptibility is higher simply because of age—just further raises that risk.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
1 Oct. 2025
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Older adults who cycle regularly are likely a healthier subgroup, and cycling may also serve as a marker of favorable genetics, with risk lowest among those without genetic susceptibility to dementia, Verghese said.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN Money,
20 Sep. 2025
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Taken together, these triumphal and tragic elements constitute the ingredients for an epic historical narrative that defies all moralistic categories, a story rooted in the coexistence of grandeur and failure, brilliance and blindness, grace and sin.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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In an era of 51st-state tensions, there’s something psychically fitting about Canada, America’s top hat, being used to reenact so many of America’s sins.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
23 Oct. 2025
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“Weakness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weakness. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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