skinny
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There were handheld American flags on skinny sticks, midsize ones to display on a wall and majestic formal flags adorned with silky gold fringe.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Low-rise skinny jeans may be out and High School Musical may no longer top the charts, but 2006 may be a portent nevertheless.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2026
It’s called the Scratch and it’s kind of the skinniest of the skinny margaritas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
“How many people got skinny thanks to you lately?” asked the host, in a segment sponsored by Enbody.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
The wolves lunged, snapping their jaws at the cow’s skinny legs.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
“It skinnies it a bit to make it a little more palatable going forward, but it focuses on some of our youngest learners and our highest-poverty elementary schools,” Riccelli said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
To loose-fit evangelists who have — since at least 2020, when comfort became the priority during pandemic lockdowns and denim brands struggled for survival — been declaring skinnies uncool, that may come as a surprise.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
The last thing he wants is for developers to swoop in and demolish buildings that could be saved, just to make way for tall skinnies and Airbnb’s.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 15, 2020
Casting aside the signature skinnies and grinnies that characterize the glossy pages of Elle and Vogue, Mirabella in its fashion pages features lesser-known models with figures of more realistic proportions.
From Time Magazine Archive
They cloth themselues with the skinnies of those beasts, because they haue nothing else to make them apparell withall.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Richard Hakluyt
Petitti said that the Big Ten would’ve preferred “a much skinnier bill” than the current version, but “that is not the reality right now.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Type B communities offer a skinnier version of the lifecare contract.
From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026
Notably, the whales observed are skinnier than they normally would be at this time of year, Slaathaug and several other researchers tell the BBC.
From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2026
But instead of portly people enjoying futuristic entertainment, we will all be skinnier thanks to today’s GLP-1 medications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
As the crack gets skinnier and skinnier and they keep sliding down, the ice begins to squeeze them.
From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart
It’s called the Scratch and it’s kind of the skinniest of the skinny margaritas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
It can claim to be one of Britain's skinniest homes, but there was plenty of interest when a house in the south Wales valleys sold for just under £45,000, around twice the estimate.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
“I do work out. I work out every single day. I’m just not working out to be in the skinniest shape of my life, I’m working out to be the best golfer I can be.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2022
The skinniest, wiriest player on our team slipped behind the Keesler defense to urinate on the Airmen’s goal, an obvious foul.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
They looked at one the ’nother and the skinniest one said, “Butcher shop.”
From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis
