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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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My dad’s dosas were perfection—paper-thin, lacey, crispy, filling.
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Urmila Ramakrishnan, Bon Appétit, 1 Mar. 2025
Running Point has a paper-thin relationship with its pro-basketball setting, which the show populates with threadbare archetypes who feel like template imports from Ted Lasso.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
And, of course, the burek: the restaurant’s signature is squeeze-your-shoulder comfort with a crust that crackles into a flurry of buttery, paper-thin phyllo.
—USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
The paper-thin potato skin needs a bit of structural help from the flesh.
—Darcy Lenz, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2025
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Urmila Ramakrishnan, Bon Appétit, 1 Mar. 2025
Running Point has a paper-thin relationship with its pro-basketball setting, which the show populates with threadbare archetypes who feel like template imports from Ted Lasso.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
And, of course, the burek: the restaurant’s signature is squeeze-your-shoulder comfort with a crust that crackles into a flurry of buttery, paper-thin phyllo.
—USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2025
The paper-thin potato skin needs a bit of structural help from the flesh.
—Darcy Lenz, Southern Living, 6 Feb. 2025
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“Paper-thin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paper-thin. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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