slender
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No actor in a movie this month is enjoying themselves more than Ian McKellen as an egomaniac painter in Steven Soderbergh’s slender pleasure “The Christophers.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
Normally, bacteria move using flagella, slender, whip-like structures that spin to push the cells forward.
From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2026
But Memphis edged the second quarter 25-23 and then poured in 36 points in the third quarter to take a slender 82-81 lead into the final frame.
From Barron's • Jan. 7, 2026
"I looked at my flat, slender belly in the mirror like a dear friend upon whom I was about to close a coffin lid," she later recalled.
From BBC • Dec. 28, 2025
She’s wearing an oversized T-shirt and sweatpants that her slender legs swim in.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
Vocabulary lists containing slender
15 Synonyms for "Thin": An Eileen Ford (1922-2014) Tribute List
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The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
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Prince Caspian
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