as in thin
being of less than usual width
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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Recent Examples of paper-thin
Picture the classic, drab freshman dorm room with a paper-thin plastic mattress and cinder block walls transformed into a true palace.
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Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 25 Aug. 2025
Trump is pressing Texas and other red states to rearrange their congressional districts to protect the paper-thin Republican congressional majority in next year’s elections.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
Republicans have a paper-thin majority in the House of Representative.
—Dan Walters, Oc Register, 6 Aug. 2025
The game’s predictably paper-thin story sees the villain Annihilus waging an attack on a galactic scale, bringing with him high level threats like Thanos and Galactus himself to the fray.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025
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Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 25 Aug. 2025
Trump is pressing Texas and other red states to rearrange their congressional districts to protect the paper-thin Republican congressional majority in next year’s elections.
—Dan Walters, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2025
Republicans have a paper-thin majority in the House of Representative.
—Dan Walters, Oc Register, 6 Aug. 2025
The game’s predictably paper-thin story sees the villain Annihilus waging an attack on a galactic scale, bringing with him high level threats like Thanos and Galactus himself to the fray.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paper-thin
Adjective
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Such devices must be thin and resilient, capable of working where rigid materials fail.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Sep. 2025
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Long wigs and extensions almost always run on the thinner side by default—an issue hair companies still haven’t really solved.—
Noel Cymone Walker,
StyleCaster,
25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Inflation could feature heavily in midterm elections next year, as the Republican Party looks to defend narrow majorities in the House and Senate.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
27 Sep. 2025
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The meandering layout of Milan predates cars, so expect to get your steps in on the narrow and winding roads.—
Abbey Hudetz,
Travel + Leisure,
27 Sep. 2025
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Ostrich dinosaurs walked on two long, slender hind legs and had a long neck with a small head, similar to modern ostriches, experts said.—
Lauren Liebhaber
September 22,
Miami Herald,
22 Sep. 2025
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This further shrank the already slender Republican House majority.—
W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Paper-thin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paper-thin. Accessed 30 Sep. 2025.
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