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Keeping such a sparse, specified operation going means narrowing budgets wherever possible, especially when it comes to managing Canopy’s investments and data.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Soccer Federation backed in a sparse post on X.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

To be sure, the session was looking volatile even before the Fed released its decision to leave interest-rates on hold, coupled with another now-characteristically sparse policy statement at 2 p.m.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

In her timely and thoughtful book “Hinterlands,” Hannah Lucinda Smith uses the term, somewhat poetically, to mean contested places on the margins of modern states—and critically, former empires—where international attention has traditionally been sparse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Meanwhile, their meager food rations have become increasingly sparse.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

The Fed released a much sparser statement summarizing recent economic developments that avoided any hint on its next move.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

However, Williams said, there are important differences between regions where fires erupt in forests with abundant vegetation fuel and regions like Southern California, where fires often burn through sparser shrubs and grasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025

Since then, not much is known of her personal life and her film appearances have grown sparser.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2024

While experts had previously speculated that Gigantopithecus was driven to extinction as their preferred forest habitats became sparser, the known fossils of the ape lacked defined dates to test the idea.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 10, 2024

The year brought forth little according to the entries which became sparser as the year wore on.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

It’s a volcanic buildup of a song, from the sparsest ticking electronics to a hard-rock stomp to a full-scale pileup of guitars, drums and horns.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

In this case, the error is making a call based on the sparsest of evidence.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 15, 2021

Turnouts for elections in 2014, 2015 and 2016 ranked among the sparsest in Indiana and broke local records for all-time lows.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2018

That said, the rest of the freestyle – which lasts nearly eight minutes, set to the sparsest of backings – has little or nothing to do with Trump.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2016

It’s the sparsest bed I’ve ever seen: small and pale yellow with a sheet, a topsheet, and one pillow.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini