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thinning



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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

In barely five minutes they noticed the trees thinning.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda




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