slim

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There is a slim chance the gap could be filled from May 9 session just below $500 sometime in mid 2026.

From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026

Published when its author was 28 years old, the slim, elliptical volume played a central role in Camus winning the Nobel Prize for literature at a time when that distinction still meant something.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

There are warnings that the chances of saving him are very slim but rescuers aren't giving up.

From BBC • Mar. 26, 2026

The chances of “Buffy” finding its way back to television anytime soon after this attempt at a revival turned into a headline-making spectacle are incredibly slim.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

The other was as certainly Georgiana: but not the Georgiana I remembered—the slim and fairy-like girl of eleven.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë