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"Even a small fee could matter if it changes the incentives of small merchants operating on thin margins," he says.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Although teapots could source feedstocks domestically from state-owned powerhouses such as Sinopec and China National Petroleum, margins were thin and production capacity was low.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

“And in this environment, where affordability is stretched so thin to begin with … there’s not a lot of wiggle room,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

The findings suggest that atomically thin materials could provide an especially useful platform for observing how electrons move collectively within ordered quantum states.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

High in the sky, thin white clouds were stacking up like petals.

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

Analysts said generic-drug makers operate on thinner margins than manufacturers of branded medicines and might struggle to move production to the U.S. due to pricing pressures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

The findings, published in ACS Nano on July 16, 2026, suggest that collagen begins losing its precise molecular organization before its fibers become thinner, fragmented, or disconnected.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

The Earth's atmospheric pressure is lower, making the air thinner and meaning less oxygen is taken into the bloodstream with each breath.

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

Her black shirt was a much thinner material than her pants and barely had any sleeves.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

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

He and Liyana sat behind a bush next to their house in the thinnest, softest grass watching customers travel up the sidewalk.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

The eurozone’s data calendar thins out in the coming week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 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

Because the ice shell on Mimas is not expected to fracture as it thins, it is possible for the moon to have an ocean while still looking inactive at the surface.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 2, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024

After a while, the vegetation thins and the ground beneath becomes rocky and hard.

From "Dragons in a Bag" by Zetta Elliott

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 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

There were elevated levels of particulate matter recorded in the vicinity of the fire Wednesday afternoon that decreased downwind of the facility as the smoke thinned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

It delighted him always to find the mirror in the shoe’s face, to rediscover the dark reflection released as the finger thinned the polish on the hard, good-smelling leather.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

"This is a timely study given the history of fire suppression in these forests and the state's increasing pace and scale of fuel thinning in recent years," Jin said.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

They said that issues such as "chronic under-investment in forest thinning, fuel reduction, and prescribed burns, along with inadequate enforcement against arson", had not been addressed "adequately enough".

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Wendy’s stock has fallen about 38% in the past year, weighed down by slumping U.S. sales and thinning margins thanks to higher prices on beef and other commodities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 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

She says, “Now, I’m also going to get permission from Drum and order you some new pants. You’re thinning out and shooting up. And you’re going to need a razor because your chin is fuzzy.”

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor