sliver
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Three weeks is only a sliver of the NFL season; a backsliding team has plenty of time to correct its course.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
“We understand trading cards represents a small sliver of the business” for Target, “likely in the 1% to 2% range of total revenue,” the Mizuho analysts, led by David Bellinger, said in their note.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Tsudik says ambiguous squares, such as those containing just a sliver of a bicycle or traffic light, are judged in part by how other people have labeled the same image.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
A big TAM tells investors that capturing even a sliver of the market could mean a great business.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
Just beyond the two dogs, a thin sliver of light appeared.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
Alongside heaping plates of spiced rice — filled with generous chunks of tender mutton and buttery marrow and slivers of fried golden onions — were bowls of a humble condiment.
From Salon ● Mar. 28, 2026
It also sees its role of defending Thailand's territorial claims as a sacred one, even though this conflict is about tiny slivers of mostly unpopulated land.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
Published as “Calder Gardens: Drawings and Texts by Jacques Herzog,” they show how he began by thinking in terms of fragments, little slivers of space in which the sculpture would act as if on stage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2025
In the resulting paintings, the small photographic moments are reduced to tiny slivers emerging from the paint, playing a delightful game of hide-and-seek.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
It is striking, for instance, how many different professions and disciplines have a word to describe the particular gift of reading deeply into the narrowest slivers of experience.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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