thin
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"Grateful to everyone for being with us through thick and thin for the past 50 years, thank you, take care," it said on social media, without providing further details.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Even before the injury, new head coach Andoni Iraola said his squad was "very thin" defensively.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
By comparison, “Sheep in the Box” feels thin and strangely scattershot in its approach to a drama that ought to have profound implications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
But it is yet another straw in the wind that the stock market is skating on thin ice.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
It smelt of hunter and prey and Fast Wet and tree, all chewed up together, and from it came a high, thin humming: so high that Wolf could only just catch it.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Analysts said generic-drug makers operate on thinner margins and might struggle to move production to the U.S. due to pricing pressures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Turbines need oxygen to burn gas, but hot air tends to be thinner, reducing the efficiency of the turbines.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
To complete the trap, the spider wraps the cone with a thinner type of silk and quickly retreats upward.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 26, 2026
Retailers are likely slower to pass along savings to make up for thinner margins when gas prices spiked in March and April, he noted.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
I smelled of paint thinner and was covered in dust the color of ash, but he didn’t know that.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
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
"Even the thinnest of chances for a change are no more within the system," said a man in his 30s in the capital, Tehran.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026
Powell has sided with the doves since the jobs picture darkened in August, but the dissents and hawkish guidance underscored how he is navigating with the thinnest internal support of his tenure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 10, 2025
He was the thinnest of her children and had a dark complexion like his father and brother.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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
On the other hand, “too many to keep track of and care for thins out your time for everyone,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 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
The traffic thins, and a few teachers mill around the doors.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
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
In the Arctic, however, sea ice has thinned dramatically, with average thickness falling from 3.59 metres in 1975 to 1.25 meters in 2012, according to a 2015 study.
From Barron's ● Mar. 11, 2026
Tehran residents, known as Tehranis, said the city was functioning but thinned out after a mass exodus of people who had the means to leave and secure a place elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
When our backs hurt from stooping over, we thinned on our knees.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
Earlier research has raised concerns that rapid weight loss associated with GLP-1 medications may contribute to bone thinning and increase fracture risk.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 16, 2026
Many of the same tech companies had powered the indexes to records this year, a grim reminder of the market’s dependence on a thinning group of top performers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
These includes fortifying homes against wildfires, replanting fire-ravaged forests and thinning out vegetation with prescribed burns, goat grazing and manual thinning with heavy machinery to reduce the intensity of potential fires.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
It should be applied to all exposed skin, including the face, neck and ears - and head if you have thinning or no hair - ideally 30 minutes before you go out into the sun.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
Coach cleared his throat and tried to sound as if he wasn't winded, but I knew he was because his words were thinning out.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
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