miser
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The choice is to have a system for drawing down your money smartly so you don’t run out, or living like a miser and ending up with more when you die than you started with.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Francesca Fiorentini, a comedian and podcaster, compared Steyer to Charles Dickens’ fictional miser Ebenezer Scrooge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
“I’m a miser right now when it comes to what I’m spending at supermarkets,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
A new four-episode podcast aims to show how Ebenezer Scrooge became the miserable miser of the Charles Dickens’ classic “A Christmas Carol,” focusing on themes of redemption, mercy, grace and compassion.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 27, 2023
She saved practically all of her earnings, living like a miser, hoarding each penny.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
For one thing, people are cognitive misers and it’s more efficient to adhere to pre-existing beliefs.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 25, 2021
Jon Clinch has revived the life behind the famous ghost in a prequel that fleshes out the early relationship between the two old misers in “A Christmas Carol.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2019
We're going going to make some pesto next season with our garden-grown basil and these nuts--the end result we will horde like gold misers.
From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2017
How do we prepare them for a world where people are proud to be stupid misers who adhere to no moral code?
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2017
The worthy physician belonged to an age when the class called misers extensively prevailed; and when those who lent out money upon interest were denominated usurers.
From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight
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