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He added that producers had "to be careful", though, "that this is not the thin end of a wedge where we cut things out".

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

The agency encourages property owners to remove certain trees around homes for defensible-space purposes and works to thin forests throughout the Tahoe Basin to reduce wildfire risk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

The process begins by directing antimuons from PSI's accelerator into a thin layer of superfluid helium.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

At 5 feet 11 inches and 138 pounds, Ali Balkey has always been thin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

They run at a gallop, thrusting their thin legs ahead of their bodies, two powerful legs at a time.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Under the ground and below the ocean’s surface lie millions of miles of glass strands thinner than a human hair.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

Last September, the company pointed to a far thinner output, saying some 70,000 contributors had written 15,000 notes, only about six percent of which were published.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

They are also much thinner than the enormous icebergs that break away from Antarctica.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Then, on Tuesday, I got a photo of her in a hospital bed, and I cried because I guess I hadn’t realized she could get thinner.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

All that day the sun shone, the snow melted, and little streams of water ran from the icicles, which all the time grew thinner.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

It’s marketed as the thinnest iPhone ever—when open.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

And the U.S. is meeting this challenge with the thinnest oil-reserve cushion in a generation.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

But I also looked in at myself as a mother through the leaded-glass pane of our very lovely living-room windows, and I saw a washed-out woman worn down to the thinnest thread.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

But it’ll be even more vital in the postseason, when the margin for error is at its thinnest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

As we sip the sweet, tart juice through the thinnest straws ever, our cousin says a prayer aloud.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

In this cosmic battle, dark energy appears to be winning — expanding our universe over trillions of years until everything thins and smooths out into almost nothingness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Molinari, though, benefited from one of the other effects of the weather: It thins out the rough.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

Buying equity stakes rather than owning depreciating fleets softens that, but the line between “demand layer” and “co-investor in hardware” thins with each deal.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

Because the ice shell on Mimas is not expected to fracture as it thins, it is possible for the moon to have an ocean while still looking inactive at the surface.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 2, 2026

The crowd on the sidewalk thins, and I look up to see why.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

I’ve thinned out my closet mostly to clothes, shoes and luggage I use during a year’s time.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

The 37-year-old responded with back-to-back birdies, but a thinned chip on the 15th which ran into a bunker, contributed to a double-bogey six.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

There were elevated levels of particulate matter recorded in the vicinity of the fire Wednesday afternoon that decreased downwind of the facility as the smoke thinned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

One franchisee operating several beverage stores in Henan province said sales volumes remained high but profits had thinned sharply over the past two years because “everyone nearby is running promotions all the time.”

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

As the third day of their voyage wore on the lands changed slowly: the trees thinned and then failed altogether.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Staff will continue regular inspections to detect crown thinning, needle discoloration and loss, reduced growth and abnormal resin production, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Memory problems, thinning skin, and declining bone mass may seem like separate consequences of growing older.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

The chart below shows the thinning gap between annualized inflation rates and APYs.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Festivals and fairs crowd the calendar through summer and fall, thinning out but never disappearing entirely once the weather turns cold.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

Just as Pinmei was starting to worry that the ice might be thinning, Lady Meng stopped.

From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin