slim
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Experts believe it could help people coming off weight-loss jabs remain slim.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Public opinion polls have shown the measure with slim majority support.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
Many believe their chances of ever buying a home are slim to none, and it can be tough for recent college graduates to break into today’s job market.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026
Your chances of running into a marketer at a neighborhood bar are slim but never zero.
From Salon ● Jul. 23, 2026
A slim ballpoint pen lay in his palm.
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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Responding to the watchdog, Jaded London argued it was "not clear" the model was holding a cigarette because it was slimmer than normal and "did not appear to be lit".
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
We have to demonstrate the performance of this much longer, much slimmer wing in terms of reduced fuel consumption.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
“It’s becoming a slimmer and slimmer slice of residents” that Reach can serve, she said.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
Update his selection of 1980s ties with a slimmer but no less punchy style from Drake’s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
If you look considerably slimmer, diary, it’s only because you have been my all-purpose supply book.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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Keiko Fujimori won the June 7 presidential runoff by the slimmest of margins, outpolling leftist Roberto Sanchez by fewer than 50,000 votes out of the more than 18 million ballots cast, the final results showed.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
Overall, reports Roll Call, “in a Senate newly under Republican control and a House held by the slimmest of GOP majorities, lawmakers cast more votes last year than any other since the pandemic.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
But when it came to science, Narlikar believed in exploring the slimmest of possibilities.
From BBC ● May 23, 2025
The fees are particularly a burden on smaller independent restaurants, which already operate on the slimmest of profit margins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2024
Scythe Curie offered Citra the slimmest of grins.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
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Other consumer-goods groups have also slimmed down or sharpened their focus in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
England have slimmed down their backroom staff since McCullum took charge.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2026
Rising labor costs had slimmed margins for many Amazon deliveries done by UPS.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
Doncic, who slimmed down this offseason, had been playing at a peak level then, but now he and the Lakers want to ease him back into things with the hopes of avoiding injuries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2025
She’d slimmed down and shot up and started worrying about clothes.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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It is thought to be the result of rapid slimming, rather than the medication itself.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
The maker of TurboTax and QuickBooks said Wednesday that slimming down its staff would improve efficiency companywide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 2026
Campari’s positive performance was offset by the slimming of inventory for lower priority brands, they added.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
J&J spent the past few years slimming down its business to focus on six categories, one of which is immunology drugs.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026
The column of light in front of us is closing, slimming into a pinpoint.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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