wafer-thin

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The Heisman Trophy winner and former No. 1 overall pick has spent his adult life in that wafer-thin line at the top, the lofty latitude occupied by the best players in the game.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2025

The Fra’ Mani is larger in circumference and sliced wafer-thin.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2024

I was straddling a wafer-thin allegorical fence: The young man my parents wanted me to be versus who I was becoming.

From Salon • May 12, 2024

The surface of gravastars is represented by a wafer-thin skin of ordinary matter, the thickness of which approaches zero.

From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2024

Matthias had said the moat wasn’t solid, only a slick, wafer-thin layer of ice over frigid water, thoroughly exposed and impossible to cross.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo