as in weak
lacking bodily strength
feeble members of the congregation are not expected to stand or kneel during services
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Recent Examples of feeble
Brad Ingelsby’s follow-up to the much-beloved Mare of Easttown switches focus from steely women to feeble men.
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Grace Byron, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
The feeble report all but confirms a Fed interest rate cut later this month and raises at least the possibility of a half point – rather than a typical quarter point - reduction, Saunders said.
—Paul Davidson, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
The Valkyries have sold out each of their 18 home games this season, 18,064 packing out Chase Center regardless of how mighty or feeble the opposition is.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 31 Aug. 2025
Great powers don’t have feeble currencies.
—Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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Kleptocratic governments are not weak or failing, Chayes argues in this paradigm-shifting 2015 book.—
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The plan to tap geothermal energy answered the key question of power provision, getting around Africa’s chronically weak grids with the green, baseload electricity required for digital infrastructure.—
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Listeria monocytogenes, or Lm, is a bacterium that causes listeriosis, a serious infection that primarily affects older adults, individuals with weakened immune systems, pregnant women and their newborns.—
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Severe infections are particularly dangerous for young children, elderly people, and those with weakened immune systems.—
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Newborns and frail older people often have a hard time coughing up the mucus, Hopkins says.—
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Sheikh has been on an extended nine-month course of antibiotics, but with just three months of that treatment left, his body is still frail.—
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“Feeble.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/feeble. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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