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sliver

noun as in tiny piece, usually of wood or metal

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Published as “Calder Gardens: Drawings and Texts by Jacques Herzog,” they show how he began by thinking in terms of fragments, little slivers of space in which the sculpture would act as if on stage.

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Those tactics included secretly cornering slivers of the financial markets and “watering” stock—defrauding investors by issuing shares well above their book value.

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Robotics for pharmaceutical and lab applications, Dash’s sector, drew only a sliver of the venture funding.

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But those products still represent a sliver of the market.

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The Pylon founder instead conceded a sliver of conventional life and rented a four-bedroom apartment a block away.

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