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It’s impressively thin and can easily fit into the infuriatingly tiny pockets in women’s pants and dresses.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

But staff in Salisbury also say missed appointments, whether down to late letters, illness, transport problems or anxiety, are a constant drain on a system already stretched thin.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

Families searched for missing loved ones long after hope had become terribly thin.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Hortiz doesn’t want the Chargers, who devastatingly lost starting center Tyler Biadasz to a season-ending anterior cruciate ligament injury, to be as thin on the offensive line as they were in 2025.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

He was disappointed, but he gave me a thin smile and wished me luck.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Last September, the company pointed to a far thinner output, saying some 70,000 contributors had written 15,000 notes, only about six percent of which were published.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

Then, on Tuesday, I got a photo of her in a hospital bed, and I cried because I guess I hadn’t realized she could get thinner.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

Yields are expected to fall, while thinner cane with lower sucrose content means less sugar can be produced.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

When the researchers made the polymer film thinner, many small polymer aggregates appeared across the surface.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

It was Kenny, thinner than when I had last seen him, but how could I ever forget him?

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

It’s marketed as the thinnest iPhone ever—when open.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

And the U.S. is meeting this challenge with the thinnest oil-reserve cushion in a generation.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

But I also looked in at myself as a mother through the leaded-glass pane of our very lovely living-room windows, and I saw a washed-out woman worn down to the thinnest thread.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

But it’ll be even more vital in the postseason, when the margin for error is at its thinnest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

It was a sliver of hope, mind you, thin as the thinnest crescent moon, but sometimes a sliver is all a person needs.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

Molinari, though, benefited from one of the other effects of the weather: It thins out the rough.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Buying equity stakes rather than owning depreciating fleets softens that, but the line between “demand layer” and “co-investor in hardware” thins with each deal.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

Along the outer edges, red hues trace the coldest material, where gas thins and dust begins to take shape.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 2026

She has keratoconus - a condition where the cornea thins and bulges, causing distorted and blurred vision.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024

At thirty weeks her skin thins, and her hair gets thicker.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

The yen’s moves on Monday may rekindle market chatter about potential intervention, particularly as authorities have in the past taken advantage of thinned liquidity during public holidays to step in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

His once thick black hair has greyed and thinned, much like his trademark beard.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

And as the 2023 dual writers’ and actors’ strikes thinned out theatrical lineups, that aversion to uncertainty became a push for reliable and profitable hits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

The 37-year-old responded with back-to-back birdies, but a thinned chip on the 15th which ran into a bunker, contributed to a double-bogey six.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

Eventually, the ash-filled air thinned to a very light gray.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

Indianapolis lost Michael Pittman Jr. to Pittsburgh in the offseason, thinning out the passing game.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Festivals and fairs crowd the calendar through summer and fall, thinning out but never disappearing entirely once the weather turns cold.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Howard is planting fewer seedlings per acre to reduce upfront costs and thinning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

But they bought more chewing gum, mouthwash and hair dyes - products that counter common GLP-1 side effects like thinning hair and bad breath.

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026

The air around them seemed to be cooling, thinning.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray