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WSJ | Buy Side: The best cheap car insurance providers offer low rates but don’t skimp on coverage options.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

Like many advisers, Mallon urges his older clients to prioritize their own needs — and live large — rather than skimp and save so that their heirs inherit more.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026

Which are expensive and the reason some polls skimp on the number of people they interview.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025

Janis James, chief executive of Good Egg Safety, urged parents not to "skimp" on cash when purchasing car seats for children.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025

The sixth graders are determined to make more links than everybody else, so they skimp on the glue and their chain comes apart.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman

Mann neither skimps on visceral excitement nor soft-pedals the horror, which makes Enzo’s indifference seem all the more maddening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

A restaurant on the outskirts of Nairobi skimps on the size of its chapatis - a flaky, chewy Kenyan flatbread - to save on cooking oil.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

She allows Belly to be a teenager in all of her messy glory, but never skimps on the enthusiastic charisma and vulnerability that lends authenticity.

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2022

The exhibition at David Nolan skimps on inside intelligence.

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

The workman who "skimps his work" is just as much a53 rascal as the "director" who corners a crop.

From The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce

Nietzsche said God is dead, but skimped on details of how we’d deal with the corpse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Companies have skimped on dividends amid an epic bull run for stock prices, leaving the S&P 500’s yield of just 1.1% looking like finance’s vestigial tailbone—an evolutionary holdover without a clear purpose.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

Economists say the government skimped on investment in infrastructure, renewable energy and digitalization — gaps it is now trying to make up.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 27, 2023

Citroen's Koskas said the carmaker had no desire to make the new C3 a "technological Christmas tree" but had not skimped on what mattered.

From Reuters ● Oct. 17, 2023

I had no time to tell him that his friend Rasseem had not skimped either.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

That hasn’t stopped some people from posting pictures and videos on social media of scrawny sandwiches, accusing the company of skimping on meat portions since Blackstone got involved.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

"Sometimes I would have asked my mum after we'd ended up in hospital overnight if she could transfer me money as I wasn't expecting to be here, we were skimping to get by," she said.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

TJ’s Maple Leaf Ice Cream Sandwiches are made in Canada by a Canadian confectioner — so you know TJ’s isn’t skimping on any maple flavorings.

From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2025

“This shortfall not only undercuts their livelihoods but highlights the glaring hypocrisy of a luxury establishment profiting handsomely while skimping on fair pay for those who make it shine.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025

It’s cold here, they’ve been skimping on the heat.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood