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Recent Examples of brittleness
Many are created in order to address a concern (dandruff, breakage, brittleness) or to work most effectively for a specific hair type (4C curls, wavy hair, gray hair).
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Jailynn Taylor, Allure, 31 Dec. 2025
Early versions suffered from brittleness.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
The stress of expanding and contracting can cause crazing, cracking, and brittleness.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2025
All brittleness and bile in the hands of Diego Luna, Valentín’s quiet righteousness rubs up against his cellmate’s grandiosity in all the wrong ways — at first.
—Blythe Marks, Them., 17 Oct. 2025
In a clinical study,1 93% of women saw improvement in dryness and brittleness and felt their hair looked healthier in 6 months.
—Korin Miller, Flow Space, 1 Oct. 2025
The equaliser had offered relief, despite the brittleness lingering in the air at half-time.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Starmer himself only adds to the sense of brittleness.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
While the field never went entirely dormant, the collapse of dedicated hardware, the brittleness of expert systems, and the failure of national mega-projects combined to bring about the second AI winter.
—Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Jailynn Taylor, Allure, 31 Dec. 2025
Early versions suffered from brittleness.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Dec. 2025
The stress of expanding and contracting can cause crazing, cracking, and brittleness.
—Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 12 Dec. 2025
All brittleness and bile in the hands of Diego Luna, Valentín’s quiet righteousness rubs up against his cellmate’s grandiosity in all the wrong ways — at first.
—Blythe Marks, Them., 17 Oct. 2025
In a clinical study,1 93% of women saw improvement in dryness and brittleness and felt their hair looked healthier in 6 months.
—Korin Miller, Flow Space, 1 Oct. 2025
The equaliser had offered relief, despite the brittleness lingering in the air at half-time.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Starmer himself only adds to the sense of brittleness.
—Sam Knight, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2025
While the field never went entirely dormant, the collapse of dedicated hardware, the brittleness of expert systems, and the failure of national mega-projects combined to bring about the second AI winter.
—Paulo Carvão, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for brittleness
flimsiness
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But Trump’s hot pursuit of immigrants in American cities requires an unmasking not only of ICE operatives, but of the flimsiness of his narrative.—
Time,
Time,
4 Dec. 2025
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None of that is especially new, but what makes this moment different is the utter flimsiness of it all.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN Money,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Brittleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brittleness. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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