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They predict a short-term hit to the housing market as many mortgages rely on two incomes and housing has gotten more expensive relative to salaries, especially for buyers already stretched financially thin.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

“Students who connect with a counselor early are far more likely to finish, and our counselors are stretched too thin to reach everyone who needs them,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Scanlon would have everything from thin, shiny shellac to sturdier "Builder In A Bottle" gel manicures layered onto her nails every other week without fail.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Niccol has also worked to thin the company’s corporate ranks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

A thin sheet of snow covered them like shrouds.

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

Ramirez’s two classmates, an Asian woman and a white man, remained in the edited version, but they were changed to appear thinner, and their facial features were noticeably distorted.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Under the ground and below the ocean’s surface lie millions of miles of glass strands thinner than a human hair.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

Reducing Menin in younger mice increased hypothalamic inflammation and brought on several aging-related traits, including lower bone mass, thinner skin, cognitive decline, and a modestly shorter lifespan.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

And it isn’t a slight on Zverev’s campaign to note he feasted on thinner brackets: In an oft-repeated stat, he captured two majors despite a 2-7 record this year against Top 10 players.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Not skinny thin like she used to be when she was a girl, the way the twins are now, but definitely thinner.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

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

"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

“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

Tats says I wear too many layers, so I choose my thinnest shirt made out of T-shirt material.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali

In this cosmic battle, dark energy appears to be winning — expanding our universe over trillions of years until everything thins and smooths out into almost nothingness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

What’s more, staying hydrated helps flush toxins, keeps organs functioning optimally and thins mucus, making it easier for lungs to stay clear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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

For a moment, the cell grows thick with the stink from the bucket, and then thins, becomes ordinary again.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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

As I thinned out the garage shelves—recycling old paint, giving away a box of used electric outlets, listing plumbing supplies on Craigslist’s “free stuff” section—the shelves grew neater.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

The wool thinned and tightened and transformed into yarn, as if by magic.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

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

Hair thinning has been reported by both men and women taking GLP-1 drugs.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 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

The man looks across the rapidly thinning audience at me, just as I'm staring at the fellow that saved my life.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland