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
The small, skinny, teenage midfielder was very protective of his flowing locks.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Before he was a skinny piano player, he was a skinny accordion player.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026
Eurocentric and Western beauty standards, further reinforced by 90s diet culture, also promoted skinny as the new sexy.
From Salon ● May 17, 2026
Outside, the sky is blue and bright sunshine drenches the parking lot, which is lined with tall, skinny palm trees.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
“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 Hakluyt, Richard
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
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
One of the cat’s paws was injured, and he was skinnier than Gonzales remembered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2024
I want to run away with the circus but take a deep breath and stand, crossing my arms, which have grown skinnier in the past few moments, against my newly sunken chest.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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
And even at my skinniest, I am still morbidly obese.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2025
“Without looking over my shoulder first, it’s one of the first places I ever wore my skinniest pair of jeans without being afraid of what someone might call me.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 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
On the hellhound’s back sat the skinniest harpy Annabeth had ever seen—a sickly-looking girl with stringy red hair, a sackcloth dress, and red-feathered wings.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
