thin
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Lack of job opportunities, lack of improvement in living standards, and pressured public services – the public expects change and its patience has been wearing thin.
From BBC • Jun. 23, 2026
Not that the songs weren’t admirably performed, but the same intensity of emotion can’t be conjured out of thin air.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026
Hitchens added: “A culture that does not possess this common store of image and allegory will be a perilously thin one.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026
Researchers at the University of Technology Sydney have demonstrated a new way to control tiny sources of quantum light by twisting atomically thin layers of hexagonal boron nitride.
From Science Daily • Jun. 20, 2026
But, as you can imagine, when he tried to add some raspberries onto the second long, thin icicle pop that he grabbed, they all quickly slid off.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
Vocabulary lists containing thin
The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 4
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The New SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words
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The ACT Reading Test: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 4
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