thinned
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In just 30 years, the heavily thinned forest had not only recovered all the carbon removed during harvesting, but had also gained enough additional carbon to equal the increase seen in the unharvested controls.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
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
The yen’s moves on Monday may rekindle market chatter about potential intervention, particularly as authorities have in the past taken advantage of thinned liquidity during public holidays to step in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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
Her lips thinned out into something that wasn’t quite a smile as she waited for me to reply.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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