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
He’s got a paper-thin mustache and a shrub of chin hair to match.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
When Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia in 2000, his legitimacy was paper-thin.
—Andrew Ryvkin, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
Image Vietnam’s textile and garment factories have paper-thin profit margins — an average of 5 percent, executives said.
—Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 4 May 2025
Stefanik was Trump’s nominee to be the next United Nations ambassador, until she was pulled in March over GOP jitters over its paper-thin majority in the House and potentially losing her usually safe seat in upstate New York.
—Colin Meyn, The Hill, 2 May 2025
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 15 May 2025
When Vladimir Putin came to power in Russia in 2000, his legitimacy was paper-thin.
—Andrew Ryvkin, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
Image Vietnam’s textile and garment factories have paper-thin profit margins — an average of 5 percent, executives said.
—Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 4 May 2025
Stefanik was Trump’s nominee to be the next United Nations ambassador, until she was pulled in March over GOP jitters over its paper-thin majority in the House and potentially losing her usually safe seat in upstate New York.
—Colin Meyn, The Hill, 2 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for paper-thin
Adjective
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Though no longer lofty, at close range these mountains are still impressive and assertive, rising in sheer cliffs hundreds of feet high above the beating surf, bare rock capped by a thin layer of soil and long grassy turf, spilling dozens of small cascades over and down narrow ravines into the sea.—
Robert Finch
June 18,
Literary Hub,
18 June 2025
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Still, scientists have long struggled to account for where all of it is located since a large chunk of ordinary matter is spread so thin among galaxies and the vast spaces between them.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
18 June 2025
Adjective
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British India faced Soviet Central Asia across the Wakhan Corridor, a strip of Afghanistan only eleven miles wide at its narrowest points, which in 1893 had been designated the buffer zone between the Russian and British Empires.—
Dorothy Armstrong
June 18,
Literary Hub,
18 June 2025
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This is due to the narrow percentage of Black filmmakers who have been given the space to make and distribute films for theatrical release.—
Maia Niguel Hoskin,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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Nolan Traoré, France An intriguing but very slender point guard, the 6-3 teenager should be a first-rounder.—
Tim Reynolds,
Los Angeles Times,
25 June 2025
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Lively became mostly famous for, well, being Blake Lively: tall, slender, beautiful, and suspiciously perfect — a patron saint for the Instagram age.—
David Mack,
Rolling Stone,
10 June 2025
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“Paper-thin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paper-thin. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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