razor-thin

adjective

chiefly US

: very small or thin

razor-thin models

He won by a razor-thin margin.

It was a razor-thin victory.

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Trump set to take office with razor-thin House GOP majority The congressman noted his cancer survival in his letter to colleagues. —

Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 4 Dec. 2024 Also on Capitol Hill, all eyes will be on House Republicans’ razor-thin majority for next year, jockeying for committee leadership roles and ongoing planning for Trump’s first 100-day agenda. —

The Hill Staff, The Hill, 4 Dec. 2024 Some folks were riding high and maybe lacked perspective on the razor-thin margin there is for success in the NFL on a weekly basis. —

Brad Biggs, Chicago Tribune, 29 Nov. 2024 Branning led Kitchens by a razor-thin margin of 518 votes—0.44 percentage points—out of over 128,000 votes tallied. —

Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for razor-thin