wafer-thin

adjective

: extremely thin and flat
wafer-thin slices

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While her host’s face appeared lit by sunlight passing through the wafer-thin, upturned brim of her Philip Treacy hat, Melania’s was downturned and opaque, its edges producing an angular silhouette that only added to the severe effect of her military-style skirt suit. Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025 And as a corollary to the latter, anything that governments provide in the form of spending or easier credit comes via a substitution of wafer-thin government knowledge for the immense knowledge that is the marketplace itself. John Tamny, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025 Raised in Aspen and trained at Nobu, he’s known for his wafer-thin tuna pizza topped with truffle oil. AFAR Media, 2 Sep. 2025 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

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“Wafer-thin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wafer-thin. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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