parsimony
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Parsimony alone would suggest that Wilson is the anomaly here, unless of course he has discovered some important new information.
From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2017
Parsimony and model-based analyses of indels in avian nuclear genes reveal congruent and incongruent phylogenetic signals.
From Scientific American • Jan. 27, 2014
Parsimony as well: Bush's request of $14.6 billion for fiscal 1990, which began Oct.
From Time Magazine Archive
Parsimony and Frugality must be Strangers to such a People; for will any Man save to-day what he has Reason to fear will be taken from him to-morrow?
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
Parsimony ruled her mind, but she could not resist the impulse to get him at least a seemly reading-lamp.
From Soul of a Bishop by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Vocabulary lists containing parsimony
"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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"The Gift of the Magi"
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"A Modest Proposal," Vocabulary from the satire
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