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And by shortening the line-out – a potential area of weakness - they thinned out Ireland's thicket of jumpers.

The older we get, the more the cushiony disks that separate the vertebrae thin out.

When the illegal cuttings left some areas too thinned out, Colorado’s San Isabel National Forest decided to formalize the process with permits.

Mr. Ramaswamy has already outlined his support for five-day workweeks at federal agencies, telling Tucker Carlson recently that such a mandate could lead to a “25 percent thinning out of the federal bureaucracy.”

What was at first a trickle became a stream and the crowds outside began to thin out.