spartan
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Ibrahimi, whose four children huddled around the stove in her spartan living room, is one of 10 single mothers living in the new community.
From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026
He limits himself to a coffee from Starbucks in the morning and a spartan lunch to free up funds for a satisfying dinner.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
It’s not a 2005 LG flip phone, but it’s more spartan than what most of us use today.
From Slate • Sep. 5, 2025
The next morning, he woke up to a flurry of missed calls, asking him to come to the Pope's spartan accommodation at the Vatican's diplomatic mission near Manila's old Spanish quarter.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2025
When his mother had said more or less the same thing, the first time his parents had visited the apartment, he’d argued with her, hotly defending the merits of his spartan, solitary existence.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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