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thin

adjective as in diluted

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“Caesar had now been performing for eight years,” Mr. Margolick writes, “and, thin and haggard, wore every week of it . . . it had happened in spurts rather than in increments.”

The tree cover has thinned so much that residents who’d never had a city view can see downtown Los Angeles.

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A doctor used a thin needle attached to an ultrasound probe to puncture the follicles and remove fluid that contains an egg within it.

The argument for purgatory “works” only for Catholics, and the argument from the few passages in the Bible that seem to imply it are pretty thin.

There have been concerns about the company’s strategy in entering the fiercely competitive food-delivery sector, where margins are thinning and the Chinese government has expressed concerns about excessive competition among the country’s corporations.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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