scantest
Example Sentences
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I acknowledge I am a sample group of one, with only the scantest evidence to work with.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
If all you have is a faint recollection that a distant relative once bought you a bond, NS&I can find out for sure with the scantest of information, says Ms Waters.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2022
McKim, who made his name selling bundles of children’s books, usually has only the scantest notion about what will be inside.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022
It has rounded corners and just the scantest of frames above and on the sides of it.
From The Verge ● Sep. 11, 2017
He had so far treated the agent with the scantest civility during their progress through the house; and Tyson's northern blood had boiled more than once.
From The Mating of Lydia by Mrs. Humphry Ward
