sliver
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Three weeks is only a sliver of the NFL season; a backsliding team has plenty of time to correct its course.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Keys come with deeded ownership to a sliver of non-buildable beachfront.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
A big TAM tells investors that capturing even a sliver of the market could mean a great business.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
To be sure, these products still represent just a sliver of overall ETF assets, even if they’re among the hottest categories for new fund launches in the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 30, 2026
I look at Shoji—his eyes flick up from his hidden book for a sliver of a moment.
From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman
I was skeptical when I first came across a recipe for dates generously filled with slivers of butter, finished off with a sprinkle of flaky sea salt.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
Not one of the galleries has a skylight, although some have one or two slender slits atop the walls that admit weak slivers of borrowed light.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Screwing them into place produced razor-sharp slivers of metal, which in some cases accumulated beneath the deck in areas containing large amounts of aircraft wiring.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2025
In the resulting paintings, the small photographic moments are reduced to tiny slivers emerging from the paint, playing a delightful game of hide-and-seek.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2024
The best you can do is sweep it up, and hope you don’t step on the slivers you left behind.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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