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as in consistency
the degree to which a fluid can resist flowing
beat the eggs and sugar until the mixture has the thickness of heavy cream
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as in density
the quality or state of lacking intelligence or quickness of mind
turkeys are now known to be smarter than once thought, refuting their reputation for thickness
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Recent Examples of thickness
The cognitive dissonance contributed to the thickness in the air that week.
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Julissa James,
Los Angeles Times,
1 July 2026
Modern thermal sights, digital battle management systems, drone integration, and rapid target sharing now play as significant a role in tank combat as armor thickness or engine power.
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Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
30 June 2026
The varying sizes of these tools suggest threads of different thicknesses, and that indicates both finer and coarser textiles, and likely the use of a range of raw materials.
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Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
The beef banter just as easily boils down to recipes and preferences in style and thickness of cuts.
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ABC News,
27 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for thickness
Julissa James,
Los Angeles Times,
1 July 2026
Modern thermal sights, digital battle management systems, drone integration, and rapid target sharing now play as significant a role in tank combat as armor thickness or engine power.
—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
30 June 2026
The varying sizes of these tools suggest threads of different thicknesses, and that indicates both finer and coarser textiles, and likely the use of a range of raw materials.
—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
29 June 2026
The beef banter just as easily boils down to recipes and preferences in style and thickness of cuts.
—
ABC News,
27 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for thickness
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thickness
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There was nothing really else at stake other than consistency and pride.
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None of it requires much beyond consistency, and the payoff extends well past better hearing in a noisy room.
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And with such excellent transit, there can be much greater housing density.
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The approach will ensure uniform build quality for high-density GPU clusters and accelerate the timeline to active operations.
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Tiernan is tall but carries the denseness of frame and core strength of a guard.
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Understand how rye works in baking Though dark, dense rye bread is delicious, rye flour does not inherently create denseness in other baked goods.
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That apprenticeship is slower than asking AI for a draft, and the slowness is exactly what builds the tacit expertise the data shows AI cannot replicate.
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Everything—the light, the salt, the slowness—conspires to shift your inner tempo.
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Through the gut-skin axis, an unhealthy gut or ongoing internal inflammation can contribute to conditions such as acne, eczema, rosacea, dullness, and sensitive skin.
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Lavender softens the look of dullness, green helps reduce the appearance of redness, and peach helps counter visible dark spots.
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In an email to Krebs, Valadon claimed that the repo’s commit logs show that GitHub’s default protections against committing secrets—protections designed to protect unwitting or unskilled developers against exactly this kind of stupidness—had been disabled by the repo’s administrator.
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“Thickness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thickness. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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