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Recent Examples of thinness
The TriFold’s back has both a camera bump and three lenses that protrude further out, undermining the broader emphasis on thinness.
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Bloomberg, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
Consumers favored battery life and cameras over thinness.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
Anti-fat bias and the conflation of extreme thinness with beauty, discipline, and health has never gone away.
—Michelle Konstantinovsky, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2025
Winslet, who has long been a voice for body positivity in an industry focused on thinness at all costs, reacted strongly to the trend of stars using GLPs for weight loss, in some cases outside of the existing health issues for which they were initially designed.
—Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
Hollywood has always had a love affair with thinness, but by the 2010s, society seemed to be changing.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 6 Dec. 2025
Nile is skeletal like Jared Kushner; his thinness is foreboding, marking a disavowal of all that is sensual.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
Pope, speaking about social media content on TikTok, warns that as long as skinniness is seen as an indicator of societal status and health, content glorifying thinness will replicate on other platforms.
—Rachel Hale, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025
If thinness and lightness are paramount, the Pro line comes out ahead.
—PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2025
Bloomberg, Mercury News, 30 Dec. 2025
Consumers favored battery life and cameras over thinness.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Dec. 2025
Anti-fat bias and the conflation of extreme thinness with beauty, discipline, and health has never gone away.
—Michelle Konstantinovsky, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2025
Winslet, who has long been a voice for body positivity in an industry focused on thinness at all costs, reacted strongly to the trend of stars using GLPs for weight loss, in some cases outside of the existing health issues for which they were initially designed.
—Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 9 Dec. 2025
Hollywood has always had a love affair with thinness, but by the 2010s, society seemed to be changing.
—Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 6 Dec. 2025
Nile is skeletal like Jared Kushner; his thinness is foreboding, marking a disavowal of all that is sensual.
—Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 6 Dec. 2025
Pope, speaking about social media content on TikTok, warns that as long as skinniness is seen as an indicator of societal status and health, content glorifying thinness will replicate on other platforms.
—Rachel Hale, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025
If thinness and lightness are paramount, the Pro line comes out ahead.
—PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thinness
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The focus on slimness has fueled speculation about the emergence of phones with no charging ports, a design choice that Apple reportedly considered for the iPhone Air, according to Bloomberg.—
Lisa Eadicicco,
CNN Money,
18 Sep. 2025
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The slimness undoubtedly raises questions about durability.—
Prakhar Khanna,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Dawn Heuer, the founder of The Heuer Design Collective in Atlanta, Georgia, shares similar feelings regarding the blandness of gray.—
Sarah Lyon,
Southern Living,
28 Dec. 2025
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Saft deplores this conciliatory blandness.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Regularly maintaining your granite countertops is crucial to prevent stains, scratches, and dullness.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
29 Oct. 2025
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The high-tech mask uses a combination of red, red plus infrared, and blue LEDs that help with common skin problems like fine lines, sagging, wrinkles, dullness, and uneven texture.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
27 Oct. 2025
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The leanness and intensity of the production — a 35-day shoot, with only 11 days in the main location — were exhilarating but wearying.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
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This ratio is important – a higher Firmicutes/Bacteroidota ratio has been associated with weight gain and less efficient metabolism, while a lower ratio – aka more Bacteroidota – tends to correlate with leanness and better metabolic outcomes.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
25 Aug. 2025
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The problem with that is that good teams — the winning franchises — build their teams inside-out by fortifying the offensive and defensive lines, which just happen to be the areas of weakness this season.—
Omar Kelly
November 7,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
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Exports weren’t the only area that saw surprise weakness.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
7 Nov. 2025
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There is a predictability about their play, yet a lack of attacking patterns.—
Andy Jones,
New York Times,
6 Jan. 2026
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Rituals create predictability, and predictability creates belonging.—
Stephanie Hind,
Rolling Stone,
5 Jan. 2026
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Break up the monotony of winter with this shiny nail set.—
Odeya Pinkus,
InStyle,
4 Jan. 2026
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As a result, much of the original's monotony was nullified, but what about the rest?—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
26 Dec. 2025
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“Thinness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thinness. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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