skinny
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Jeans remain the core of Levi’s business, and skinny, slim, bootcut and straight fits still make up the bulk of its bottoms segment.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Many apartment buildings have a flimsy first floor, propped up by skinny supports to accommodate carports, garages or storefronts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
“Extreme diets: How Lindsay and Nicole got so skinny — but have they gone too far?” the honorable Us Weekly wondered.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
Modric, Croatia's most successful ever footballer, has since regrown those locks and that small, skinny frame has carried him to six Champions League titles with Real Madrid and a Ballon d'Or.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
"Yes, skinny rabbit. So you do," he murmured.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
“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
Type B communities offer a skinnier version of the lifecare contract.
From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026
Coca-Cola is selling soda in skinnier, cheaper bottles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
The Mexican fan palm, supposedly brought here by the mission-building padres to supply Palm Sunday foliage, can grow taller, maybe 10 stories, and skinnier, and can dip and sway camera-readily in the wind.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
Doubters pointed to the size of his biceps, and re-posted the boxing picture alongside an image of Mr Macron, 46, with a skinnier arm.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2024
He looked so beautiful, but skinnier than I thought he was.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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
Around them you have Isthmus Cove, Catalina Harbor and half a mile of land in between them, the skinniest bit of the island.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
It’s not the tallest, but it is the skinniest - the world’s skinniest, in fact.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 18, 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
The Mona Lisa was tiny—the size of the smallest, skinniest tourist at the Eiffel Tower.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
