bare-bones

Team Griffin, she says, is a very bare-bones operation.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

It offloaded bare-bones models into rental fleets, sapping resale values.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Launched in 1992, the company is responsible for the "Spirit Effect" in which bare-bones service opens up travel to a broader slate of customers otherwise priced out of the market.

From Barron's ● May 9, 2026

Realism is achieved not through bare-bones scenic furniture but through the combustible relationships of characters who exist with one another in a purgatory of disillusionment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

In the isolation of the desert, in close working conditions at a bare-bones facility with ramshackle dormitories, the Muroc computers stepped easily into the role of junior engineers.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Its bare bones prose and electrifying pictures preserve, honor and celebrate the people, places and ideas responsible for Rosales’ sentimental education.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Focaccia has become de facto sandwich bread or makeshift pizza crust elsewhere in Italy, but it tends to be bare bones in Genoa, where it has been made since the Middle Ages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Down to the bare bones due to a host of injuries, Roma moved into third thanks to quickfire late goals from Manu Kone and Matias Soule which broke Sassuolo's brave resistance.

From Barron's ● Jan. 10, 2026

What is announced today is likely to be only the bare bones of a narrow agreement.

From BBC ● May 8, 2025

Only six weeks later would his whereabouts become known, and then only by the bare bones: he was at MIT, working on an unidentified “war project.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik