skinny
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“How many people got skinny thanks to you lately?” asked the host, in a segment sponsored by Enbody.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Growing up she was skinny brow queen with big curly hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
"He was very skinny and there was a significant physical disparity between him and the other athletes in his age group," his long-time personal trainer Rodrigo Goncalves told BBC Sport.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Jeans remain the core of Levi’s business, and skinny, slim, bootcut and straight fits still make up the bulk of its bottoms segment.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
“Was that the skinny white boy with the shaggy hair?”
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
“It skinnies it a bit to make it a little more palatable going forward, but it focuses on some of our youngest learners and our highest-poverty elementary schools,” Riccelli said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
To loose-fit evangelists who have — since at least 2020, when comfort became the priority during pandemic lockdowns and denim brands struggled for survival — been declaring skinnies uncool, that may come as a surprise.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
The last thing he wants is for developers to swoop in and demolish buildings that could be saved, just to make way for tall skinnies and Airbnb’s.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 15, 2020
Casting aside the signature skinnies and grinnies that characterize the glossy pages of Elle and Vogue, Mirabella in its fashion pages features lesser-known models with figures of more realistic proportions.
From Time Magazine Archive
They cloth themselues with the skinnies of those beasts, because they haue nothing else to make them apparell withall.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Richard Hakluyt
Type B communities offer a skinnier version of the lifecare contract.
From Barron's ● Jun. 20, 2026
Coca-Cola is selling soda in skinnier, cheaper bottles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
“The skinnier you are, the more respected and prettier you’re viewed. It’s ridiculous,” Madder said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025
Sophie T: It comes back to not needing to change yourself in a society that pressurises us constantly to be skinnier, taller, to read more books and be the best at hobbies.
From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2025
It zigzagged diagonally up the slope, getting wider and skinnier as I went.
From "The Honest Truth" by Dan Gemeinhart
It can claim to be one of Britain's skinniest homes, but there was plenty of interest when a house in the south Wales valleys sold for just under £45,000, around twice the estimate.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
“Without looking over my shoulder first, it’s one of the first places I ever wore my skinniest pair of jeans without being afraid of what someone might call me.”
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2022
Around them you have Isthmus Cove, Catalina Harbor and half a mile of land in between them, the skinniest bit of the island.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
The skinniest, wiriest player on our team slipped behind the Keesler defense to urinate on the Airmen’s goal, an obvious foul.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
The door of the cabin burst open then, and the shortest, skinniest black woman Polly had ever seen pushed her way through the door.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
