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Discover LudwigThe phrase "actually fragile" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to emphasize the fragility of an object or situation, often in contrast to a previous assumption or belief.
Example: "I thought the vase was sturdy, but it turns out it's actually fragile and needs to be handled with care."
Alternatives: "truly delicate" or "genuinely weak".
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On Sunday, more than 60,000 protesters took to the streets across the Russia, proving that Russian President Vladimir Putin's much-vaunted "stability" is actually fragile.
Volcanologists call it Pele's Hair, after the Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes, but the golden strands are actually fragile volcanic fiberglass.
Respondents described something akin to an existential crisis: the realisation - through the deaths of their infants - the 'safe world' was actually fragile and were vulnerable.
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But with that have come tough setbacks and strong criticism, and the realization that seeming stability is actually quite fragile.
It's actually very fragile," Breashears said, at the opening in Beijing in September, hobbling around on a leg he broke in the mountains.
"On the surface the government appears to be stronger than ever … yet it is actually so fragile that its leaders lose sleep when a few scholars meet and talk in a private home," he wrote in the New York Times in May.
Mr. Schall had to decide if the windowpane would be made of costly breakaway glass, which is actually extremely fragile plastic, or tempered glass, which is real glass treated to shatter -- in this case, upon detonation of small explosives -- into small, relatively harmless pieces.
'Despite their fierce reputation, the birds are actually very fragile, but can adapt to extreme weather conditions,' he says.
For all the trouble they cause, bacteria and viruses are actually very fragile.
DNA is actually quite fragile and notoriously vulnerable to degradation with time and exposure to the environment.
As The Atlantic's Garrett Epps put it once: "Despite its somewhat threadbare majesty, the Supreme Court, like the rule of law itself, is actually a fragile thing".
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