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And what the photos ultimately show has been school-play-level infrastructure and comically sparse attendance.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

Yet the evidence is sparse, the science still in its cradle—which may explain why she sticks to motherhood as a baseline, with fatherhood a deviation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

So far, the major change is more sparse communication.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026

However, details on which apps are and are not included, besides those named by the government, and how the measures will extend to gaming sites like Roblox, remain sparse.

From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026

He sat a while with those longshoremen, shipwrights, and weatherworkers, taking pleasure in their slow, sparse conversation, their grumbling Gontish speech.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

“Autumn,” while sparser, has its subjects massed at the edges, offering a connection between the verdant periods that come before and the chilly days that lay ahead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

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 tourists and merchers liked to keep to well-lit thoroughfares, so the foot traffic here was sparser, and he made better time.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

By 18 months, he had only the sparsest wisps of blond hair, and had yet to produce a single tooth.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

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