razor-thin

adjective

chiefly US

: very small or thin

razor-thin models

He won by a razor-thin margin.

It was a razor-thin victory.

Examples of razor-thin in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

To beat this issue, the MIT team inserted a razor-thin layer of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) between two metal electrodes. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2026

Republicans are now heading into November with a razor-thin cushion in Congress, with Democrats only needing three house seats to take control, and only four to flip the Senate. — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2026

Johnson has a razor-thin margin in the House and can only afford three defections on a party-line vote. — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 14 Sep. 2026

The margin for error is going to be razor-thin when the football team’s roster is filled with first-, second- and third-year players, and Sunday’s game was a good sampling of this. — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2026