thinner
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The massive run-up also has raised the specter of a summertime pullback, given thinner trading volumes and a lack of corporate headlines expected over June and July.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
That is a thin harvest—and thinner still since Yeats was Irish.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
Exhaustion was setting in, but the deodorant I’d packed needed to be replaced, so I found myself roaming the body care aisles, wincing under the fluorescent lights as my patience rapidly grew thinner.
From Salon • May 22, 2026
The NHS recommends the jabs for people who are overweight with obesity-related health risks, not people who just want to get a bit thinner.
From BBC • May 13, 2026
Kainene steered with a careless confidence, past potholes on the road, past palm trees stripped of fronds, past a thin soldier pulling along a thinner goat.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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