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
Tsudik says ambiguous squares, such as those containing just a sliver of a bicycle or traffic light, are judged in part by how other people have labeled the same image.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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
The fire was dead, and there was only a sliver of moonlight to see by.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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
Mr Mohammed says that his father and grandfather had dug through these plots for decades but discovered nothing more that "dust and slivers of quartz".
From BBC ● Dec. 17, 2025
Those tactics included secretly cornering slivers of the financial markets and “watering” stock—defrauding investors by issuing shares well above their book value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
The other was freshly tossed in a kerosene-fueled wok, yielding glossy, chewy noodles bursting with soy sauce, blackened slivers of onion, and, most importantly, that elusive, umami-filled char called wok hei.
From Salon ● May 15, 2024
Watered wine and lemonsweet and some nice hot dogtail soup, with slivers of mushroom in the broth.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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