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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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Our guardrails are now paper-thin.
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George Diaz, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2025
But for anyone not predisposed to enjoy this sort of thing, the film is a long haul, suffering from a simultaneously overstuffed and paper-thin narrative that, toward the conclusion, features enough revelations and plot twists to make Agatha Christie throw up her hands.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2025
My dad’s dosas were perfection—paper-thin, lacey, crispy, filling.
—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
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George Diaz, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2025
But for anyone not predisposed to enjoy this sort of thing, the film is a long haul, suffering from a simultaneously overstuffed and paper-thin narrative that, toward the conclusion, features enough revelations and plot twists to make Agatha Christie throw up her hands.
—Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2025
My dad’s dosas were perfection—paper-thin, lacey, crispy, filling.
—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
See All Example Sentences for paper-thin
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“Paper-thin.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paper-thin. Accessed 21 Apr. 2025.
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