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thin

[thin] / θɪn /






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This millennial was also a fan: I personally fell for the zesty Linguica sausages and the Picanha steak, which is sliced thin and seasoned with rock salt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

The primary objective of the experiment was to establish that an exceptionally thin layer of engineered muscle tissue could generate enough force for swimming.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

A hot strip mill makes steel slabs into thin coils used to manufacture products including vehicles, appliances and construction materials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

In an industry dependent on private money, the line between investor and extortionist could be perilously thin.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

At once I realized that we were on ice, thin ice, no more than a couple of inches thick.

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

Much of Venezuela’s raw crude is so thick that it won’t flow through pipelines unless it is first blended with 20% or more of oil thinner products.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

As a result, the Arctic is increasingly covered by thinner first-year ice, which forms during the cold months but is more susceptible to melting when summer returns.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

But he became increasingly conscious of his condition as he grew older, particularly as hairstyles changed and his hair became thinner.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Mice with reduced Menin activity developed greater inflammation in the hypothalamus, thinner skin, reduced bone mass, and worsening cognitive performance.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

After that, she erased the nose and turned it up a bit more, made the eyes a little rounder, the top lip a bit thinner.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

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

"Even the thinnest of chances for a change are no more within the system," said a man in his 30s in the capital, Tehran.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026

He was the thinnest of her children and had a dark complexion like his father and brother.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

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

The term describes how the crust stretches and thins in the middle, similar to the narrowed "neck" that forms when a piece of saltwater taffy is pulled apart.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2026

The ring thins and fades, leaving only a bright red scar around Celia’s finger.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

The largest trees in the thinned stands were 20% bigger in diameter than those in the unharvested control areas.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026

But it’s especially bad for big agricultural states, where margins were already thinned due to tariffs and fertilizer prices.

From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026

That buffer has thinned and real-wage growth has stalled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

Where the woods thinned, Taran clattered along a dry stream bed until, exhausted, he stumbled and held out his hands against the whirling ground.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

An outer buffer that slows wildfires by thinning dense trees, clearing dead brush, and breaking up continuous vegetation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Not long after beginning university, she started experiencing irregular and painful periods, thinning hair, weight gain and exhaustion.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Forest Service, are overgrown because of decades of fire suppression, and that thinning them out through controlled burns would help reduce the amount of water absorbed by upland vegetation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

His hair was thinning, and he smiled hesitantly and blinked at her through small, round glasses which made him look a little like a friendly owl.

From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman


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