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"Tamirkhan's hind legs are long and slender with distinctive ankles, traits that are unmistakably zalambdalestoid," said study author Shawn Zack, a paleontologist at the University of Arizona.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

These slender, long-winged raptors make an epic annual migration to Africa in winter and return to Europe to nest over summer, often setting up home in agricultural fields.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

When the Kimberly-Clark team studied it, the length of its fibers and their slender diameter stood out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Click, click, click went its slender legs on the marble floor.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

"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

In the midst of them, thin-stalked, a taller, slenderer fungus, the Charing-T Tower lifted towards the sky a disk of shining concrete.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

A celebrated beauty, she wears tight corsets and glorious frocks, adhering to a regimen of regular exercise and a diet that often consists of little more than beef broth and the slenderest of orange slices.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2022

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

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

Reflecting on the incident afterwards, my father told us that Wilson seemed not to understand that it was "only by the slenderest margins" that his life had been saved.

From BBC ● May 22, 2015

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

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins