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Consumer prices for July are due at 8:30 a.m., with forecasters expecting a slight 0.1% rise in July, which would help keep the Fed on hold.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026

This will result in a slight dimming of the Sun's light and a drop in temperature.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

Kimberly-Clark on Tuesday reported a slight decline in organic U.S. sales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

In the tall, slight and blonde athlete, they had found a noble hero to fight against the tides of modernity in service of some older ideal.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

After a slight hesitation, he added, “We all do.”

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

This helps explain why he can’t disregard her criticism the way any normal person might shrug off slights from someone they don’t respect.

From Slate ● Jun. 11, 2026

"An overwhelming picture has emerged of your rage, anger, and volatility", said the judge, adding that George had a "pronounced temper" which could be sparked by trivial matters and "perceived slights".

From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026

Ekulona’s Julie is assailed as much by Hedda’s slights as by her indifference.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

Of course, the Patriots won their six Super Bowls with Tom Brady and Grumpy Lobster Boat Captain Bill Belichick, who built a dynastic partnership before it fizzled in a fog of grunts and perceived slights.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

Love and lives are complicated, so I will tell you only two things that happened over the next few years, though you can imagine a thousand little slights between the physician and Hassan.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson was cooler on the film, commenting A Real Pain "is slighter than expected and is thus easily overwhelmed by Culkin’s high shtick".

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2024

As the storylines have become more current, they have, perhaps inevitably, become both slighter and messier.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

Wu showcases a knack for mining meaning out of the slighter essays, about her teenage job at a quaint bakery, for example, or her idiosyncratic affection for bunnies.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2022

In a European-style system, by contrast, a 4-point shift to the right or left might change only one party in the country’s governing coalition, prompting a slighter policy change more proportional to the electorate’s mood.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2022

They are both medium height—around five feet seven—but Vincent is broader, bigger; Theo slighter, thinner.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

As a result, fallow fields are in a "deplorable state, and at the slightest spark, the blaze spreads like wildfire" due to vegetation dried out by the heat.

From Barron's ● Jul. 25, 2026

And everywhere, hometown fans lose their minds at the slightest hint of a French victory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

"But they haven't done any better at all, not in the slightest," she says.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Traditional Kung Pao chicken calls for stir-fried chicken, so no, this recipe isn’t authentic in the slightest.

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

Father was in the dining room when we reached it and greeted Mr. Weil without the slightest sign of surprise.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

His defence said he had a brain injury and paranoid schizophrenia, and that his mental condition affected the way he viewed being slighted.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

Leaving a group trip where someone feels financially slighted can lead to conflict when you get back home.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

Dorothy, in Ms. Benedict’s telling, feels slighted by her male colleagues in London’s Detection Club, a real-life group of British mystery writers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 19, 2025

“That was a father. I can’t sit here and be angry or feel slighted by LeBron James in any way in that regard.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2025

It was the sort of response Toby excelled at when he felt slighted.

From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss

ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith says LeBron James confronted him at Thursday’s Lakers game over slighting Bronny, with the NBA star ‘making sure I mind what I say about his son.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025

Having just recently arrived in town from Tulane University, newcomer Dannen may not have known he was slighting a cherished, 123-year-old regional sports tradition, but UW President Ana Mari Cauce understood.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023

Black vultures have a massive 5 foot wing span, slighting smaller than the turkey vulture.

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2022

Santee Cooper apologized in company statements, saying slighting lawmakers wasn’t their intention.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 2, 2020

By slighting death, by acting, we pretended it was not the terrible thing it was.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien