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
The bodyguard activated a compact digital camera and began photographing each wafer-thin page of the Book.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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