wafer-thin

adjective

: extremely thin and flat
wafer-thin slices

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Unfortunately, these strengths are working in service of a story too flimsy to support them, an unsatisfying combination of threadbare tropes, predictable twists and a wafer-thin character study. Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025 Kogod’s defining feature is its roof, a wavelike structure that seems to flutter like a curtain of glass over the tree boxes and a wafer-thin reflecting pool created by Kathryn Gustafson. Paige Williams, New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2025 The coming nights will see the wafer-thin lunar crescent sweep past Venus to join Mercury and the Beehive open star cluster in the constellation Cancer, the crab, ahead of its new moon phase on Aug. 23. Anthony Wood, Space.com, 19 Aug. 2025 Spread a wafer-thin layer of oil across the entire surface of the griddle, and up the sides. Matthew Korfhage, Wired News, 6 Aug. 2025 Maybe those wafer-thin 2010 smartphones were ahead of their time, or maybe manufacturers will crawl back to the chunky battery in two years. Janhoi McGregor, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025 With the Texas Republican Party rocked by infighting, Democrats hope now is their time to achieve the decades-long dream of turning Texas purple and eroding the GOP's wafer-thin Senate majority. James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 July 2025 The effect: the nails look as if they have been coated with a wafer-thin layer of glass—shiny, clear, and yet totally natural. Lina-Marie Baatz, Glamour, 7 July 2025 In a wafer-thin crystalline sample of nickel iodide, the team observed that the spins of nickel atoms were arranged in a spiral pattern throughout the material’s lattice. Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 13 June 2025

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“Wafer-thin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wafer-thin. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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