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since the wall separating our cubicles is paper-thin, I get way too much information about my coworker's love life
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Greenwashing remains widespread and companies are well aware that sustainability sells, even if the claims are paper-thin.
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Zoe Bayliss Wong, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
For such projects, Van den Heever added to her knife set the kind of skinny, snaky blade used in Spain for carving paper-thin slices off a classic jamón ibérico.
—Air Mail, 26 Apr. 2025
That’s not reassuring, given the state’s paper-thin record of successfully managing big projects and big emergencies.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2025
Their bathroom floor also pooled with water after showering, and noise from other apartments, like the shrill beeps of a low-battery smoke detector next door, carried through the paper-thin walls.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 22 Apr. 2025
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Zoe Bayliss Wong, Forbes.com, 30 Apr. 2025
For such projects, Van den Heever added to her knife set the kind of skinny, snaky blade used in Spain for carving paper-thin slices off a classic jamón ibérico.
—Air Mail, 26 Apr. 2025
That’s not reassuring, given the state’s paper-thin record of successfully managing big projects and big emergencies.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2025
Their bathroom floor also pooled with water after showering, and noise from other apartments, like the shrill beeps of a low-battery smoke detector next door, carried through the paper-thin walls.
—Matthew Sedacca, Curbed, 22 Apr. 2025
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“Paper-thin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paper-thin. Accessed 9 May. 2025.
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