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"The margins are so thin that you can't make a lot of mistakes," a logging manager said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

However, patience is clearly wearing thin after fans reacted to the latest defeat by Newcastle.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 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

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

She was dangerously thin, I felt, for an expectant mother, and several times I brought her a portion of my own breakfast bread.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

United's defensive resources are stretched thinner as Leny Yoro is ruled out through suspension.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Some regions are hotter and have thinner clouds, while others are cooler and contain thicker cloud layers that extend farther vertically through the atmosphere.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

As the fat layer became thinner, fewer injections were administered.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

For the oil producers, it is worth it, because leaving the crude stranded is economically worse than taking on the freight cost and selling at thinner margins.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

It was, at first sight, a horned horse: larger than a cart horse, but thinner, gaunt: its ribs were visible, and its skull was vivid beneath its skin.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

“I couldn’t eat. I was the thinnest I’d ever been. I was just so anxious every day, not having answers to these questions,” Bayouth said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 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

"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

Snap judgments are, first of all, enormously quick: they rely on the thinnest slices of experience.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

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

The traffic thins, and a few teachers mill around the doors.

From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements

More remarkable still: the thinned stands of trees had stored as much or more carbon in their wood than 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

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

"Practices will need to be incentivised back into NHS work in the places where the NHS footprint has thinned most."

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

Finally the crowd thinned and cart wheels could be heard echoing up the road.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson

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

At this stage, high energy radiation from the young star can penetrate the thinning material and heat gas in the disk until it escapes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

The abbot’s eyebrows now nearly mingled with his thinning hair.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz