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  • s  very thin
    wafer-thin sheets of metal
  • r  very thin
    it was cut wafer-thin

  • Or with those wafer-thin frogs, peeled lovingly from roads around Siem Reap and now drying in his window box.
  • Despite polls that showed the Labor Party winning by a margin of possible landslide proportions, Wilson came out of the election with a wafer-thin parliamentary majority319 .
  • The house specialty is that sublime Sri Lankan staple, the hoppera wafer-thin, bowl-shaped pancake with a crisp surround and soft spongy center.
News & Articles

  • Human brain cut into 7,400 slices, then reconstructed digitally in 3-D
    LONDON — Scientists have finely sliced a human brain into 7,400 wafer-thin sheets and then digitally reconstructed it to create the world's most detailed map of the brain in three dimensions.The so-called "Big Brain" project, which took a 65-year-old woman's brain and cut it into slices just 20 micrometers thick, shows the brain's anatomy in microscopic detail, almost down to a cellular level ...
    June 22, 2013 - NBC NEWS
Quotes

  • Peter Mandelson in International Herald Tribune
    I feel as if we have a priceless, wafer-thin vase of great craftsmanship in our hands but which now has to be carried from here over a very slippery floor,Mandelson told the European Parliament last week. "One false move and the whole...
  • Bruce Flegg in The Age
    Tim has a lot to offer and I would like to foster that but at this stage he's had a few months in parliament, he has a wafer-thin margin within his own seat, he has listened to people outside the party room and he has shown his inexperience,...
  • Deron Williams in Sports Network
    Mr. Blankenhorn cites what he calls the 'wafer-thin' definitions of marriage that increasingly turn up in court decisions and polemical articles about same-sex ties: 'a unique expression of a private bond and profound love'; 'a private arrangement... Peter Steinfels http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Steinfels&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHoJBqyXaRLK_oYP4tmwc1G17pPrA BP News http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp%3FID%3D26027&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNE1OiB4gfYgfXZ6nrqJ29E_2LZuHw Jul 6, 2007 108601 142456 wafer We got down early and couldn't recover from it," Williams said. "Von [Wafer] and Rafer [Alston] played great tonight. When you get down by 10 or more points against an athletic, physical team like Houston, you need to play smart basketball....

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