thin
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Void years tacked onto the end of contracts thin that out further.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Close to 1 in 4 homeowners is “house rich” and stretched thin everywhere else, and that usually includes retirement accounts.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
"The margins are so thin that you can't make a lot of mistakes," a logging manager said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026
However, patience is clearly wearing thin after fans reacted to the latest defeat by Newcastle.
From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026
It was a thin broth made from boiled elk hooves and a few slivers of dried deer heart, bulked up with rowanberries and the tough, tasteless tree-mushroom that the clans call auroch’s ears.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
The gel forms two fins, each coated with a layer of muscle cells far thinner than a human hair.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
United's defensive resources are stretched thinner as Leny Yoro is ruled out through suspension.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
As the fat layer became thinner, fewer injections were administered.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Newspapers can become thinner and health care more Byzantine in ways that are difficult to trace back to an investment firm.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
My brain is like a universe whose gases get thinner and thinner at the edges.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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
Value is concentrated exactly where capacity is thinnest.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 1, 2026
“Imperial Valley growers provide the nation with a safe, reliable food supply on the thinnest of margins for many growers,” she said in an email.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2025
The Air is billed as Apple’s thinnest smartphone yet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025
High in the oak trees, stuffing themselves with acorns, the tubby young bears moved along the thinnest branches.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
Special deals helped boost attendance in Florida and California while traffic thins out at competitors Universal and SeaWorld.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 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
As the remaining ice thins and retreats, more open ocean is left exposed to sunlight.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 13, 2025
As a devastating outbreak of bird flu thins chicken populations and market forces drive grocery prices up, the breakfast and baking staple has become pricier and harder to find.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2025
The crowd on the sidewalk thins, and I look up to see why.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
But it’s especially bad for big agricultural states, where margins were already thinned due to tariffs and fertilizer prices.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026
To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
"Practices will need to be incentivised back into NHS work in the places where the NHS footprint has thinned most."
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026
Within minutes the crowds thinned, leaving long stretches of sand with barely another beachgoer in sight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The ice on the river broke into great floating blocks, and gradually thinned and disappeared.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
An outer buffer that slows wildfires by thinning dense trees, clearing dead brush, and breaking up continuous vegetation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
But scientists say long-term glacier thinning and the thawing of frozen ground likely raised the risks.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026
What to avoid: Lancaster does not recommend tree thinning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The chart below shows the thinning gap between annualized inflation rates and APYs.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 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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