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How to pronounce “brittle”

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Pronunciation guide for brittle

Learning goal: Practice the English pronunciation of brittle with real speech in context.
Available examples: 8 YouTube examples
Real speech example: Democracy Requires Disagreement. Here’s How To Do It BetterBut authoritarian systems are brittle.
Definition summary: Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact; crackly.

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Democracy Requires Disagreement. Here’s How To Do It Better

But authoritarian systems are brittle.

[Adjective]
Inflexible; liable to break, snap, or shatter easily under stress, pressure, or impact; crackly.
Not physically tough or tenacious; apt to break or crumble when bending.
(archaeology, of rocks, minerals, etc) Tending to fracture in a conchoidal way; capable of being knapped or flaked.
Emotionally fragile, easily offended.
(engineering, computing, of a system) Poorly error- or fault-tolerant; having little in the way of redundancy or defense in depth; susceptible to catastrophic failure in the event of a relatively-minor malfunction or deviance.
(informal, proscribed, of diabetes)[1] Characterized by dramatic swings in blood sugar level.
[Noun]
A confection of caramelized sugar and nuts.
(by extension) Anything resembling this confection, such as flapjack, a cereal bar, etc.
[Verb]
(intransitive) To become brittle.
(transitive, obsolete) To gut.

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