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slim pickings

pronoun as in few

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‘You get to 60 and it’s slim pickings,’ the actor says of the ‘beauty-based’ entertainment industry — but with the Apple TV+ spy drama, she keeps finding new ways to shine.

“You get to 60 and it’s slim pickings. It’s still a beauty-based business and that’s a really tough pill to swallow. I enjoy having life written on me, I’m proud of it, but it’s limiting. So what do you do? Rush off and risk your life on the surgical table?”

But these are slim pickings for a movement that once dominated the European scene.

From BBC

Still, Trump has slim pickings, as both Rubio and Scott also voted to certify the results, while Burgum verbally supported former Vice President Mike Pence’s choice to resist Trump’s pressure to overturn the election.

From Salon

It wasn’t the greatest “Weekend Update” guest segment of late, but as with the rest of the episode, it was slim pickings this week.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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