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A delicious, slender bean-and-cheese burrito with no sauce at the venerable Al & Bea’s in Boyle Heights is going for six bucks and change right now when it was about $2 cheaper two years ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Compared with related beetles, members of this genus have exceptionally long and slender mandibles, antennae, and maxillary palps.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

After Tom O'Sullivan's score, Beirne and Conroy struck to draw Mayo level, although a cleverly worked point from totemic Kingdom midfielder Joe O'Connor ensured Kerry held a slender advantage at the break.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

Sprouting eyes, wings, beaks, the slender monolith seemingly rotates and billows as it rises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Standing tall and proud on the launch pad was the slender white rocket with a black cone and the words “United States” written in red paint down its side.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

"It is more likely than not that megalodon must have had a much slenderer body than the modern great white shark."

From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2025

And it consisted of a series of stacked volumes that grew slenderer and more circular as the tower rose.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2020

“In the Realm of Perfection” is slenderer, knottier, more self-consciously besotted than that.

From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 2018

Its signs also use a sans-serif font, although one that's slenderer and more delicate than Helvetica.

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2017

I add thirteen tiny freckles to a new, slenderer nose.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

In her review of the 1978 production, Times theater critic Sylvie Drake identifies “Fam and Yam” as the weak link in “Albee Directs Albee,” calling the playlet “the slenderest of self-jibes” and a “threadbare spoof.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2022

If you didn’t recall that phrase from the 288-line Tennyson poem A Dream of Fair Women, you had only the slenderest hope of responding correctly with Cleopatra and Caesar.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2020

But what “Sollers Point” accomplishes is a singular balancing act, compensating for the mood of heavy discouragement with only the slenderest thread of hope.

From Washington Post ● May 21, 2018

Rosberg, meanwhile, has to beat Hamilton at the Circuit of Americas to have any hope of maintaining even the slenderest of interests in this season's title race.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2015

She could fly, birdlike, from tree to tree, catching on to the slenderest branches.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins