slim
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“Tied into that, just running a lot. I’m the same weight, 215 or 220-ish, but still slim so I can move fast. Just getting in the gym every day and continuing to keep a routine.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
While slim, Mamdani’s political biography is marked at key moments by brushes with big tech.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
An energy firm facing backlash over plans for new power lines has unveiled what it has described as a "slim and compact" pylon, designed "with the Welsh landscape in mind".
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
So the chances of this happening in any meaningful way are slim at best.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Their legs were long and slim, and I wondered why they weren’t cursed with the big-boned frames Juanita and I had inherited from Mamá.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
Just inside the door, there was a flimsy mannequin with the face of a much younger, slimmer Trump, wearing a red “Trump 2028” hat, a dark suit, and a signature red tie.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Soon, the fun fan shot was replaced by one of those grim before-and-after shots: An obese Goodman in his 30s and the slimmer Goodman in his 70s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The slimmer Whirlpool hunkered down in the Western Hemisphere, where its profit margins were highest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
Responding to the watchdog, Jaded London argued it was "not clear" the model was holding a cigarette because it was slimmer than normal and "did not appear to be lit".
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
It would be slimmer yet when it had passed through the hole.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
Keiko Fujimori won the June 7 presidential runoff by the slimmest of margins, outpolling leftist Roberto Sanchez by fewer than 50,000 votes out of the more than 18 million ballots cast, the final results showed.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
To evoke the fractured psyche of the characters, Morrison’s narratives are highly disjointed, switching among different points of view and time periods with only the slimmest semantic clues offered for orientation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
But when it came to science, Narlikar believed in exploring the slimmest of possibilities.
From BBC ● May 23, 2025
The next day, Kennedy would take the lead over Nixon and then go on to win the election by one of the slimmest margins in history.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025
He couldn’t not go, not now they had found the entrance to the Chamber, not if there was even the faintest, slimmest, wildest chance that Ginny might be alive.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
Rent eats up more than half of Imeh’s take-home pay, which was slimmed after a credit-card company started garnishing part of her wages to pay off her card debts, she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026
A dedicated pace coach for the senior side could be another tweak to a backroom staff previously slimmed down by McCullum.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
Though the fest itself has been cut down from 11 days to six, the amount of talent jammed into that week doesn’t appear to have slimmed down much at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026
England have slimmed down their backroom staff since McCullum took charge.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026
She’d slimmed down and shot up and started worrying about clothes.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Traditionally, he says, men "almost need a bit of a scare" to start trying to shed the pounds, seeing it as something private and shunning the more social approach some women prefer, like slimming clubs.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Continental, which has been struggling amid a crisis in the wider European auto sector, has been slimming down its operations to focus on its traditional tyre business.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
The firm is slimming its shareholders council to 12 senior partners and its global managing partner, down from 30 members.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
It is thought to be the result of rapid slimming, rather than the medication itself.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
The column of light in front of us is closing, slimming into a pinpoint.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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