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Six example sentences with vulnerable, each labelled with its topic.
The old routers are vulnerable to anyone already on the same network, and the manufacturer stopped issuing patches in 2019.
Technology
Low coral islands are especially vulnerable to a rising sea, since almost none of their land clears two meters.
Environment
Funds that borrow short and lend long are vulnerable the moment every lender wants their money back the same morning.
Finance
The zone defense left the corners vulnerable, and the visiting shooters hit eleven threes from exactly those spots.
Basketball
An economy that exports one crop is vulnerable to a single bad harvest or a single change in world prices.
Economics
A startup with one large customer is vulnerable, because losing that contract can erase most of its revenue overnight.
Startups
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Found in 5 published word lists
- Nursing Word ListAuthoritative
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- Science Vocabulary ListAuthoritative
- Computer Science Word ListAuthoritative
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)Recognized
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