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thinness

  • a word derived from thin.

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“This can’t be happening,” I wail, my hands shaking as I feel the unprecedented thinness of my ponytail.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 9, 2025

Despite its thinness, it is highly stable and conducts electricity extremely well.

From Science Daily Nov. 28, 2025

It’s a big update, particularly in thickness…make that thinness.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 23, 2025

The wide availability of weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic -- used to suppress appetite -- has also been linked to the return of thinness.

From Barron's Oct. 16, 2025

But she clearly would die and likely was dying—this thinness, this weakness, this evasion.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill