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hair-restorer [ˈheərıˈstɔːrə] N

hair's breadth N

hair-splitting N ADJ

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
A hair's breadth was, and still is, informally, a very small measurement.
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We seem about a hair's breadth away from "double-plus good" territory sometimes.
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If you noticed that there is a hair's breadth between such views and those of extreme religious conservatism and common-or-garden internet misogyny.
www.telegraph.co.uk
A prison nurse has come within a hair's breadth of being suspended for a financial relationship with a former inmate she had treated.
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He needs the tape: he is just a hair's breadth away.
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Hair conditioner may also be used to improve hair's texture and manageability.
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Five years of hair's breadth reversals have not yet conquered this soul.
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How could such an ineffective legislator come within a hair's breadth of the presidency, and seemingly be ready to win it in 2016?
opinion.inquirer.net
A nuclear war is averted by a hair's breadth.
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In 1900, the race was within a hair's breadth of disappearing, with only 19 riders at the start.
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