thinned
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Although the melting did not quite match the record losses of 2022, glaciers thinned by an average of 2.5 to 4 meters.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Borrowing costs have risen sharply in advanced economies, public debt is at historic highs and fiscal cushions thinned by a barrage of crises, said Silvana Tenreyro, chief economist at the IMF.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 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
The ice on the river broke into great floating blocks, and gradually thinned and disappeared.
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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