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The additional ballots widened the slim lead Wahab held on election night.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The noise of backhoes, cranes and bulldozers echoed across Colombia's quake-hit cities on Sunday as workers labored to remove rubble, though the chance of finding survivors was slim a week after the disaster.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

Holly: Losing Harry Wilson and Raul Jimenez in this transfer window leaves slim pickings in terms of a talisman at Fulham, with remaining striker Rodrigo Muniz among their most expensive assets.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

WSJ | Buy Side: The new release from PopSockets is slim and multifunctional, providing extra grip and a stand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

A figure—pale and slim, with a cloud of frosted hair.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

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

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

Update his selection of 1980s ties with a slimmer but no less punchy style from Drake’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Cabin two was more graceful somehow, with slimmer columns garlanded with pomegranates and flowers.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan

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

Playing in the Open Division requires extreme focus on taking it one game at a time and never looking ahead because every game can be won or lost by the slimmest of margins.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2026

But when it came to science, Narlikar believed in exploring the slimmest of possibilities.

From BBC ● May 23, 2025

There was a chance, she thought, just the slimmest chance that an offering burned on this altar might appear at Camp Half-Blood.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Though the third installment of the fest 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 ● Apr. 29, 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

DuPont has slimmed itself to two business units from the seven it had in 2014.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026

Mr. Plemons, who has slimmed down to scarecrow dimensions to suit a character who has renounced all worldly pleasures, is one of those rare actors who never seem to be acting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2025

She’d slimmed down and shot up and started worrying about clothes.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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 maker of TurboTax and QuickBooks said Wednesday that slimming down its staff would improve efficiency companywide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026

As part of a vast slimming down of its business, which has included selling some medical practices, UnitedHealth also said it completed the sale of Optum UK for $400 million.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026

Beauticians already advertise rapid slimming "packages" for weddings or social events.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026

I’ve worn black today, because I’ve heard so often that it’s supposed to be slimming.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan