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Recent Examples of thinness
If thinness and lightness are paramount, the Pro line comes out ahead.
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PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2025
Before her diagnosis, Crollman said her workouts and eating habits were designed to ensure thinness—now, they’re intended to honor her body and build back its physical strength.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 16 Oct. 2025
But trends, especially on social media, that fallback on body-shaming stereotypes casting thinness as a virtue haven't disappeared.
—Stephanie Ganz, Parents, 8 Oct. 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Between Hollywood’s decades-long obsession with thinness and the recent swings of the body-positivity movement, GLP-1s have ushered in a new era of lessness.
—Anne Marie Chaker, Time, 20 Sep. 2025
And, with more celebrities on GLP-1 weight loss drugs, the beauty standard seems to be swinging away from body acceptance and back towards thinness.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
The relationships of House of McQueen’s hero to his mother (Emily Skinner) and his early disciple, patron, and confidante, the great fashion-world fairy godmother Isabella Blow (Catherine LeFrere), are sketched with similar thinness.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
That makes thinness all the more important.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Despite the thinness, the iPhone Air promises up to 40 hours of video playback.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2025
PC Magazine, 18 Oct. 2025
Before her diagnosis, Crollman said her workouts and eating habits were designed to ensure thinness—now, they’re intended to honor her body and build back its physical strength.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 16 Oct. 2025
But trends, especially on social media, that fallback on body-shaming stereotypes casting thinness as a virtue haven't disappeared.
—Stephanie Ganz, Parents, 8 Oct. 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Between Hollywood’s decades-long obsession with thinness and the recent swings of the body-positivity movement, GLP-1s have ushered in a new era of lessness.
—Anne Marie Chaker, Time, 20 Sep. 2025
And, with more celebrities on GLP-1 weight loss drugs, the beauty standard seems to be swinging away from body acceptance and back towards thinness.
—Alyssa Goldberg, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
The relationships of House of McQueen’s hero to his mother (Emily Skinner) and his early disciple, patron, and confidante, the great fashion-world fairy godmother Isabella Blow (Catherine LeFrere), are sketched with similar thinness.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
That makes thinness all the more important.
—Lisa Eadicicco, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025
Despite the thinness, the iPhone Air promises up to 40 hours of video playback.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 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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Saft deplores this conciliatory blandness.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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One veteran Hollywood insider not connected to Disney said the utter blandness of ABC’s Wednesday statement is evidence that the company was winging it and essentially stalling for time.—
Josef Adalian,
Vulture,
18 Sep. 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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New York Times Women want structure and predictability more than flexibility.—
Emma Hinchliffe,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
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That could be needed both to allow Levi to sell his kits at a competitive price and to gain more predictability about costs.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
2 Nov. 2025
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Combs' Halloween menu reads like the ghost of a feast, stripped bare of decadence but still precise in its monotony.—
Danielle Bacher,
PEOPLE,
29 Oct. 2025
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Zoom founder Eric Yuan even outsourced the monotony to an artificial intelligence (AI) avatar.—
Richard Torrenzano,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Thinness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thinness. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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