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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

Cox recommended he take it a day at a time, but warned the weather had "taken a slight turn".

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

It also projects stable to slight growth in adjusted earnings per share compared with previous guidance of high single-digit growth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

“Tyran and those books,” she says with a slight head shake.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

A common trait I’ve found among repeat champions is a prominent chip on their shoulder, from slights both real and imagined, often nurtured for decades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

However, his no-compromise policy on racial slights of any sort would have a direct and indirect influence on the civil rights actions of the 1950s and 1960s.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Whoever was appointed into such a high profile post would have faced scrutiny and Jason Arday had a slighter research track record than some others in the field.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

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

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

A big guy as dark as midnight and a slighter guy, also dark black.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Succession actor Jeremy Strong plays Zuckerberg as a "full-on villain", according to a review in the Hollywood Reporter, "stoically arguing that even the slightest gesture of responsibility is anathema where money is concerned".

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

Overflow crowds standing on Broadway to scream at the slightest glimpse of a chart-topper in the second-story window of New York City’s One Astor Place.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2026

“I should have done it years ago, but I told her tonight instead. I thought she took it well but clearly I was wrong. I haven’t the slightest idea what Alexander was doing there.”

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

When negotiations grew difficult, he could become inflexible, leaving even the bill’s staunchest allies in the Senate feeling slighted, people involved in the process said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

That’s left some residents feeling slighted, saying they were unaware of the attraction until ground was moved.

From Los Angeles Times ● 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

Judge Geraint Walters told Swansea Crown Court that Cooper appeared to have felt "slighted" after Mr Evans and his partner shared a look while his partner, Catherine Tracy Francis, was singing karaoke.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2025

A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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

Having just recently arrived in town from Tulane University, newcomer Dannen may not have known he was slighting a cherished, 123-year-old regional sports tradition, but UW President Ana Mari Cauce understood.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023

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

From Salon ● Sep. 2, 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