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The agency encourages property owners to remove certain trees around homes for defensible-space purposes and works to thin forests throughout the Tahoe Basin to reduce wildfire risk.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Plus, this year’s Rush Week revealed a queasy new strategy to thin the recruiting ranks.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

Susan and her husband Geraint's home, which they have lived in for 53 years, is separated from the decommissioned Ruabon chemical works by a thin tree line.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

It has served him well in his series of half-hour episodes, but one might have wondered whether stretching it to feature length would also stretch it thin.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

He was disappointed, but he gave me a thin smile and wished me luck.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Under the ground and below the ocean’s surface lie millions of miles of glass strands thinner than a human hair.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

Last September, the company pointed to a far thinner output, saying some 70,000 contributors had written 15,000 notes, only about six percent of which were published.

From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026

They are also much thinner than the enormous icebergs that break away from Antarctica.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

Then, on Tuesday, I got a photo of her in a hospital bed, and I cried because I guess I hadn’t realized she could get thinner.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

His face seemed to have got much thinner and sharper since I’d seen him last.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

And the U.S. is meeting this challenge with the thinnest oil-reserve cushion in a generation.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

But I also looked in at myself as a mother through the leaded-glass pane of our very lovely living-room windows, and I saw a washed-out woman worn down to the thinnest thread.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

"Even the thinnest of chances for a change are no more within the system," said a man in his 30s in the capital, Tehran.

From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2026

The thinnest part of the phone, the left-side panel, is 3.9 millimeters thick—equivalent to five credit cards—and the device is 12.9 millimeters thick when completely folded.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025

As we sip the sweet, tart juice through the thinnest straws ever, our cousin says a prayer aloud.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan

In this cosmic battle, dark energy appears to be winning — expanding our universe over trillions of years until everything thins and smooths out into almost nothingness.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Buying equity stakes rather than owning depreciating fleets softens that, but the line between “demand layer” and “co-investor in hardware” thins with each deal.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

On the other hand, “too many to keep track of and care for thins out your time for everyone,” he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026

Along the outer edges, red hues trace the coldest material, where gas thins and dust begins to take shape.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 2026

The ring thins and fades, leaving only a bright red scar around Celia’s finger.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

That buffer has thinned and real-wage growth has stalled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

"Practices will need to be incentivised back into NHS work in the places where the NHS footprint has thinned most."

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2026

His once thick black hair has greyed and thinned, much like his trademark beard.

From Barron's ● Aug. 2, 2026

Some glaciers have thinned so much that they may no longer be able to build up enough ice to surge again.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 17, 2026

Yord’s smile thinned as he reached into his shirt pocket, pulled out the stack of money, and placed it in Ampai’s hand.

From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat

Staff will continue regular inspections to detect crown thinning, needle discoloration and loss, reduced growth and abnormal resin production, she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Memory problems, thinning skin, and declining bone mass may seem like separate consequences of growing older.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

The chart below shows the thinning gap between annualized inflation rates and APYs.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Festivals and fairs crowd the calendar through summer and fall, thinning out but never disappearing entirely once the weather turns cold.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

With his mother trailing behind him, he bolted down Broadway, the crowd slowly thinning out.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro