slender
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Wu Yize held off a Shaun Murphy fightback to ensure he will take a slender 13-12 lead into the concluding session of their World Championship final at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
Plagued by insomnia, the 11-year-old British boy pulled a slender book off his mother’s shelf, one she had swiped from school where she taught.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
First, their majorities in the House and Senate are perilously slender.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
Not one of the galleries has a skylight, although some have one or two slender slits atop the walls that admit weak slivers of borrowed light.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Forasmuch as they hang in my memory by only this one slender thread, I don’t know what they did, except that they forbore to remove me.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
Vocabulary lists containing slender
15 Synonyms for "Thin": An Eileen Ford (1922-2014) Tribute List
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The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora
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Prince Caspian
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