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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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Her pot stickers — a dozen to an order (because that’s the number traditionally served in China), their paper-thin skin blistered from pan searing — are a comfort food with universal appeal.
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Jason Rezaian, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
Titus’ consort Berenice (Lara Wolf), a Judean who in life was quite fascinating, is badly underserved and ultimately mistreated by the story, and the paper-thin depiction of the actual Judean slaves in Rome at the time comes precariously close to antisemitic in moments.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2024
On the phone, the surgeon, who has operated on opera singers with symptoms like mine, described a possible course of treatment: a procedure to punch small holes in the paper-thin bones of my sinuses to widen the passageways.
—Dessa Dessa Tanya Pérez Alec K. Redfearn, New York Times, 12 June 2024
And the Knicks were already paper-thin, playing without Julius Randle, Bojan Bogdanovic and Mitchell Robinson Wednesday night.
—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 9 May 2024
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Jason Rezaian, Washington Post, 17 July 2024
Titus’ consort Berenice (Lara Wolf), a Judean who in life was quite fascinating, is badly underserved and ultimately mistreated by the story, and the paper-thin depiction of the actual Judean slaves in Rome at the time comes precariously close to antisemitic in moments.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 July 2024
On the phone, the surgeon, who has operated on opera singers with symptoms like mine, described a possible course of treatment: a procedure to punch small holes in the paper-thin bones of my sinuses to widen the passageways.
—Dessa Dessa Tanya Pérez Alec K. Redfearn, New York Times, 12 June 2024
And the Knicks were already paper-thin, playing without Julius Randle, Bojan Bogdanovic and Mitchell Robinson Wednesday night.
—C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 9 May 2024
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“Paper-thin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paper-thin. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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