thinner
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The massive run-up also has raised the specter of a summertime pullback, given thinner trading volumes and a lack of corporate headlines expected over June and July.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
That is a thin harvest—and thinner still since Yeats was Irish.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Exhaustion was setting in, but the deodorant I’d packed needed to be replaced, so I found myself roaming the body care aisles, wincing under the fluorescent lights as my patience rapidly grew thinner.
From Salon • May 22, 2026
When an ordinary rubber band is stretched, it becomes thinner while largely maintaining the same overall volume.
From Science Daily • May 13, 2026
They give a quieter, thinner, more bell-like tone, and are usually used as a kind of ear-catching special-effect.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
