skinny
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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
His hair is neatly parted and he is known for his skinny suits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
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
Snake was tall and skinny, and Newt was short and freckled, with long, stringy braids.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
“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
But it’s not just that his paychecks have grown considerably skinnier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2025
But editorial director of British Vogue told the BBC the fashion industry "should be concerned" by a recent trend towards a return of skinnier models.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2025
I can tell that I’m skinnier because the thin gold bracelet I’ve been wearing since I turned sixteen now slips down my hand.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
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
It’s not the tallest, but it is the skinniest - the world’s skinniest, in fact.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 18, 2022
He was last seen struggling against the current, terribly emaciated, one of the skinniest orcas ever seen alive.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2021
The door of the cabin burst open then, and the shortest, skinniest black woman Polly had ever seen pushed her way through the door.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
