skinny
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Like skinny jeans, they eventually became unavoidable — and thus a bit stale, giving way to looser fits and bulkier “dad” sneakers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
But if the James move shocked the NBA, no one was surprised by the skinny Slovenian in the yellow jersey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
So, what do you need to know about this pill version of the skinny jab?
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 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
With his skinny tail high in the air, he took off down the game trail as fast as he could run.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
“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
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
Ehrlic commented in IndieWire that "Phoenix looks even skinnier here than he did in Joker, his shoulder blades threatening to cut two holes straight through his back".
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2024
One of the cat’s paws was injured, and he was skinnier than Gonzales remembered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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
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
It’s not the tallest, but it is the skinniest - the world’s skinniest, in fact.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
She was not a slim girl, so she thought the skinniest thoughts she could, and squeezed her way into the gap.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
