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I felt a slight prickle at the nape of my neck, having lived my life in a manner that allowed ordering without performing a cost-benefit analysis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Official figures showed the economy expanded by 0.1% in the month, defying analysts' expectations of a slight contraction.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

A slight surplus of 100,000 sellers meant the market only marginally favored buyers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Analysts surveyed by financial data firm FactSet had forecast a slight decline.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

But before Louis Béroud gets too excited, tell him there’s a slight complication.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

A common trait I’ve found among repeat champions is a prominent chip on their shoulder, from slights both real and imagined, often nurtured for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

But Diarra’s tendency to fixate on small details and slights eventually cracked the case.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

This helps explain why he can’t disregard her criticism the way any normal person might shrug off slights from someone they don’t respect.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

"An overwhelming picture has emerged of your rage, anger, and volatility", said the judge, adding that George had a "pronounced temper" which could be sparked by trivial matters and "perceived slights".

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

Love and lives are complicated, so I will tell you only two things that happened over the next few years, though you can imagine a thousand little slights between the physician and Hassan.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

We’re left with a nightmare of identity that feels slighter than it should, unsure of where to point its knife.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

His most dramatic liberties were reined in; tempo fluctuations became slighter.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

Wu showcases a knack for mining meaning out of the slighter essays, about her teenage job at a quaint bakery, for example, or her idiosyncratic affection for bunnies.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2022

In a European-style system, by contrast, a 4-point shift to the right or left might change only one party in the country’s governing coalition, prompting a slighter policy change more proportional to the electorate’s mood.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2022

One of the men is thinner than the other, of a slighter stature.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

Mr. Weaver tends to make eye-catching statements without the slightest confirmation from primary sources.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

"I don't feel prepared in the slightest and I don't feel safe," she added.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

"Even the slightest insights from an out-of-equilibrium physics model will guide us in the future."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Overflow crowds standing on Broadway to scream at the slightest glimpse of a chart-topper in the second-story window of New York City’s One Astor Place.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

“Don’t go too far,” he said, but nodded just the slightest bit.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

When negotiations grew difficult, he could become inflexible, leaving even the bill’s staunchest allies in the Senate feeling slighted, people involved in the process said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

That’s left some residents feeling slighted, saying they were unaware of the attraction until ground was moved.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

Leaving a group trip where someone feels financially slighted can lead to conflict when you get back home.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

But throughout he repeatedly returned to the justices in ways that made clear he felt personally slighted by the decision.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

And you, Laila had asked, do you feel slighted, Babi?

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

While having a drink in a bar shortly after arriving in Venezuela, he carelessly made a slighting comment about Simón Bolívar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith says LeBron James confronted him at Thursday’s Lakers game over slighting Bronny, with the NBA star ‘making sure I mind what I say about his son.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025

Black vultures have a massive 5 foot wing span, slighting smaller than the turkey vulture.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2022

I’ll give you a chance to redeem yourselves by not giving any further detail and be watching here for a remedy of this painful slighting.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2021

I quit selecting certain of my New York brothers and giving them money to go and lay groundwork for new mosques in other cities—because slighting remarks were being made about “Malcolm’s ministers.”

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey