slight

The ECB’s figures showed that lending to households rose to 19 billion euros from 17 billion euros in July, including a slight increase in mortgage loans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

“And there’s just slight degradation as that’s happening that compounds over time.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

"Luckily they were able to do a slight incision and not have to rip me open completely," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Energy storage and grid modernization, alongside biofuels, were the only subsectors that “posted slight increases in new jobs,” E2 adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Razi kept on, rolling the cart toward the town but taking a slight detour to give Marco time to catch up.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

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

"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

Still, despite the scheduling slights, Xi wants this summit as much as Trump does.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 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

But once he started dominating, he kept dominating, putting up six double-doubles in seven playoff games, obliterating short-handed Memphis inside while steamrolling the Lakers’ slighter opponents on Tuesday.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 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

The slighter, swifter Sam Simmonds starts at eight after Alex Dombrandt's brush with Covid.

From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2022

Larger people burn more baseline calories than people who are slighter.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2021

Whoever this was, he was slighter than Eril-Fane, and sank less deeply into the down.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

"Even the slightest insights from an out-of-equilibrium physics model will guide us in the future."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

And yet the movie’s central storyline hints at writer-director Bassam Tariq’s inclination to subvert his own brooding-antihero saga, allowing room for unpredictability and the slightest whiff of impish irreverence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

But curved cockpit windows are challenging to make – the slightest distortion or defect is clearly visible to the pilot.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

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

Every time Masvita showed the slightest willingness, a cake was thrust into her mouth.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

If questions about his presence on the team have left him feeling slighted, Freeman says he’s fueled more by the adversity he has faced than by his recent success.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 16, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

But throughout he repeatedly returned to the justices in ways that made clear he felt personally slighted by the decision.

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 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

In attendance upon him was Anteros, said sometimes to be the avenger of slighted love, sometimes the one who opposes love; also Himeros or Longing, and Hymen, the God of the Wedding Feast.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

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

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

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

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2022

“They do not want to be seen as slighting China,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2022

I’d thought I was getting back at her for slighting me.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu