thin
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The retina is the thin layer of tissue lining the back of the eye.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
But for Lurie, the argument that demand should inevitably lead to a stamp of approval falls short given the "extremely thin science."
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
By comparison, “Sheep in the Box” feels thin and strangely scattershot in its approach to a drama that ought to have profound implications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
"An important link in the chain has just vanished into thin air, without there even having been a chance to recover the information Daniel Siad might have possessed—given that he was never questioned," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Too thin for all the weight of her on the small, pointed hooves and she went through and down in a huge spray of shattered ice and water.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
This was an expanded World Cup with a thinner field and maybe the U.S. was a medium-size fish feasting on minnows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
The Earth's atmospheric pressure is lower, making the air thinner and meaning less oxygen is taken into the bloodstream with each breath.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
“This is especially the case given the U.S. holiday on Friday, when liquidity conditions will be a lot thinner, amplifying the impact of any intervention.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
Turbines need oxygen to burn gas, but hot air tends to be thinner, reducing the efficiency of the turbines.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
He’s as sharply dressed as he was when he visited Wisconsin last year, although he’s thinner now.
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
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
The Air is billed as Apple’s thinnest smartphone yet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025
It was believed to be the time when the veil between the living and the dead was at its thinnest and spirits roamed the earth.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
This is the gift of training and expertise—the ability to extract an enormous amount of meaningful information from the very thinnest slice of experience.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
The eurozone’s data calendar thins out in the coming week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 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
When a tidewater glacier thins enough, it can lift off the seabed and begin floating on the ocean surface.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 26, 2026
As the infrastructure thins out the further you travel, roads are replaced by dirt tracks created by the few vehicles that pass.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2025
The crowd on the sidewalk thins, and I look up to see why.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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
The monoculture that once lifted “Euphoria” has thinned, if it even exists at all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2026
Streaming thinned crowds and big budget films faltered.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
Tehran residents, known as Tehranis, said the city was functioning but thinned out after a mass exodus of people who had the means to leave and secure a place elsewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 8, 2026
Unconfined by walls, it thinned, and I was able to take in more of the guests at a glance.
From "Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine
"This is a timely study given the history of fire suppression in these forests and the state's increasing pace and scale of fuel thinning in recent years," Jin said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
"Unlike Californian forests, where preventative measures can be taken through thinning, boreal forests, which are very dense, cannot be controlled," Bergeron said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026
They said that issues such as "chronic under-investment in forest thinning, fuel reduction, and prescribed burns, along with inadequate enforcement against arson", had not been addressed "adequately enough".
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Yet, as Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris tell us in “The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss,” “a great thinning of the skies is under way.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
He ran his fingers through his thinning hair and sank into his chair.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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