paper-thin

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Fanatics, just as it did with the Red Sox jersey, also flagged the paper-thin look of uniforms during the design and manufacturing process.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026

In Tegucigalpa, the nation’s capital from which Hernández left in chains in 2022, Asfura held a paper-thin lead Monday in Honduras’s presidential race.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

Revealing a boundary as fragile as this paper-thin clay layer required painstaking work.

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025

Sweeney has a tough enough job cut out for her trying to act her way out of a paper-thin script, but this one-note, ridiculously monotone performance does her no favors.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

All she could do was cry and cry and let her tears fall on the spotted, paper-thin skin of Mullah Faizullah’s hands.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini