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After a slight wobble this month in the tech realm caused by fresh worries about huge investment spending, profitability and company finances, AI-linked firms were back on the front foot.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

In the least active group, symptom scores increased by an estimated 0.143 points annually, indicating a slight worsening.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

“Many organizations came into the camps. They just came around and took some pictures and then they leave,” said Annour, a slight man with a serious countenance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Net free cash flow should decline slightly compared with its prior outlook of slight growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

As he spoke, he made a slight, unconscious movement of his head, an almost imperceptible nod, as if pushing the unseen pawn forward.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

Manilow, who entered the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002, insists the slights don’t bother him.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

To get even for all the names he was called and the slights he’d suffered.

From "Time Bomb" by Joelle Charbonneau

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

Seattle-area residents may have another, albeit slighter, chance to catch a glimpse of the aurora borealis Saturday evening, the Seattle office of the National Weather Service says.

From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2024

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

His most dramatic liberties were reined in; tempo fluctuations became slighter.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2022

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

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Mr. Weaver tends to make eye-catching statements without the slightest confirmation from primary sources.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

St. Clair simply calls him a “nuke,” one that might readily self-detonate at the slightest bruising of his self-image.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 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

But that didn’t seem to put him at ease in the slightest.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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 plan began with repairing relationships in the local recruiting scene, many of whom had felt slighted by USC.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025

Ged's pride would not be slighted or condescended to.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

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

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

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

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2022

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

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