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“The bulls needed only a slight taste of heating demands to chase the bears off the board and put us firmly over $3,” Gary Cunningham of Tradition Energy says in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026

With 51.7% of expected votes in, former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim held a slight lead over three-term state Sen. Ben Allen, with 52% versus 48%.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

When the findings were combined, the results were consistent with outcomes ranging from a slight decline in quality of life to a substantial improvement.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026

The understanding is that because there was minimal contact and it was a slight tug on the shirt, rather than a sustained holding offence, the play was allowed to continue.

From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2026

Nali said, looking at the slight mound in the middle of both corn groups.

From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young

Directing “gave him a long-awaited power advantage, avenging him” for childhood slights.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Berry revisits perceived slights by NYRB’s management over the years, and he overstates Mr. Klinkenborg’s reservations about his work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

But Diarra’s tendency to fixate on small details and slights eventually cracked the case.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

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

Twisted words, pranks, omissions, riddles, scandals, not to mention their revenges upon one another for ancient, half-remembered slights.

From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black

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

Originally programmed in 1987 by George Lewis, the composer, performer and computer-music pioneer, Voyager’s discography is slighter than Mitchell’s, but likewise thrilling.

From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 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

One of the men is thinner than the other, of a slighter stature.

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

"Now the slightest piece of information is being turned into intelligence reports, and officers are being deployed left, right and centre."

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

Seven did not flatter them in the slightest.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Like other Swedish candies, they contain no gelatin, giving them a lightweight texture with the slightest sugary crunch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

When Steinbeck first introduced Cathy Ames to the public in 1952, and when Elia Kazan brought his version to the screen three years later, we were only allowed the slightest glimpse into her soul.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

There was the slightest titter of a laugh to my left, and Brown narrowed her eyes at the guilty cadet.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Should Mosley’s high school coaches at state-champion Santa Margarita feel slighted?

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

Simon gave back despite feeling slighted by the school, from which he graduated with honors in 1985.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

“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

“All those neighbors will look out their windows and kick themselves when they realize they slighted the head of the northern SIM!”

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

While having a drink in a bar shortly after arriving in Venezuela, he carelessly made a slighting comment about Simón Bolívar.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Keller and Knight were rewarded with proximity to Storrie and the best punchlines, but neither Quinn nor Jack Hughes had to indicate in any way that they had joined America’s president in slighting them.

From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2026

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

That would be slighting those who came before him: Ozzie Newsome, Dave Casper and Keith Jackson in the day, and Tony Gonzalez, Jason Witten and Rob Gronkowski in more recent years.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2022

“How dare you say so, when he’s got both his eyes? And very handsome ones they are, too,” cried Jo, who resented any slighting remarks about her friend.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott