wafer-thin
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This process created a wafer-thin clay template that faithfully captured the animal's outer shape in three dimensions.
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025
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
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
