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But when Walker and Auen plunge our cipher, Béatrice, into the world of sparse electrostatic video, the result is both harrowing and unbelievably beautiful.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Details on deployment and growth plans for the Cybercab were sparse.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Its dry climate and sparse vegetation leave fossil-bearing rocks exposed, while its geology contains sedimentary layers of the right age to preserve dinosaur remains.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

The elegantly sparse interiors are the work of Alex Eagle, the London fashion and furniture designer who is married to Wadhwa, and her creative partner Sophie Hodges.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

The tall trees thinned out, bush and undergrowth were sparse.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

But Greenville offers the same access to the great outdoors, along with a food scene that punches above its weight—all with sparser crowds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 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

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

From Scientific American ● Oct. 15, 2021

There is the couple with two daughters, known until recently by only the sparsest of details: They’d moved into the big house that replaced the old house that was razed after its original owner died.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2020

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