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scant

[skant] / skænt /


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Scant days after taking up hairdressing in a southeast London salon, she finds herself face-to-face with 57-year-old Peggy Jones.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2024

Scant information has come out of some places, raising concern about the extent of the devastation that could yet be discovered.

From Reuters • Feb. 7, 2023

Scant fossil evidence had made the animal hard to classify, but new analysis suggests that its teeth are mammalian rather than reptilian.

From Scientific American • Dec. 18, 2022

Scant details on the move are fueling doubts.

From Seattle Times • May 14, 2022

Scant attention, likewise, was given to Froebel's epoch-making work, "The Education of Man."

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin




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