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Elsewhere, Healey's Budget "offers scant relief from 'grim picture'", the paper says.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

While he has expressed a desire to lower costs, Becerra has released scant details about how he would do it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

More space, privacy, home cooking and no cookie cutter rooms or scant closet space.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

ETF investors, Panigirtzoglou points out, bought into the first South Korean selloff using levered and unlevered funds, but so far in October’s Korea selloff 2.0, evidence of this buying is scant.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

“Just about any offense will do, even if it bears scant relation to the likelihood the applicant will be a good tenant.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

With new Simpson revelations ever scanter, the connected tale of his longtime friend A.C.

From Time Magazine Archive

On scant notice and even scanter knowledge, the TV executive must decide whether the threat is news to be covered, or a cruel, senseless display that the cameras will only encourage.

From Time Magazine Archive

The valley soon shows itself in marked change from the fertile basin we have quitted; it grows bleak and less cultivated; rubbly slopes of shale and slate cover the hills; the vegetation becomes scanter.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix

So when Burns knocked, Will knit his brows,   His window gap made scanter, 50 And said, 'Go rouse the other house;   We lodge no Tam O'Shanter!'

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

The chestnuts, growing scanter, were replaced by dark firs and pines.

From The Firefly of France by Marion Polk Angellotti

I acknowledge I am a sample group of one, with only the scantest evidence to work with.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

If all you have is a faint recollection that a distant relative once bought you a bond, NS&I can find out for sure with the scantest of information, says Ms Waters.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2022

McKim, who made his name selling bundles of children’s books, usually has only the scantest notion about what will be inside.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022

It has rounded corners and just the scantest of frames above and on the sides of it.

From The Verge ● Sep. 11, 2017

The latter had perceived his daughter as she passed at a short distance, with scantest form of recognition.

From Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by Ernest G. Henham

As the National Association of Scholars will soon publish in a comprehensive piece by S. Stanley Young and Warren Kindzierski, the Reference Manual pervasively scants the effects of modern science’s irreproducibility crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

While “Kissinger” scants the tapes, it leans precariously on one source.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025

In her impressionistic portrait, Brown moves some events in time, combines others and scants certain family members — entirely omitting, for example, William’s son, John, a famous scientist in his own right.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2016

But, possibly because of budgetary restraints, the film pretty much scants the revolution.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Now lovely woman scants her dress, with bandages the sick to bless; and stoops so far to war's alarms, her very frock is under arms!"

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

Hospitals and heroic interventions got the large investments; incrementalists were scanted.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017

The implications of the technology, on the other hand, are somewhat scanted.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2016

Earlier biographies — the best is Lyndall Gordon’s — have somewhat scanted Eliot’s American childhood and youth, which is one reason why this new book is so valuable.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2015

Helen Hayes is effective as the Empress, but her work, like much about this picture, has been scanted by the inept direction of Anatole Litvak.

From Time Magazine Archive

As he says in one of his finest apologues:    Through birth, life, death, burial, the means are provided,       nothing is scanted.

From Escape, and Other Essays by Arthur Christopher Benson

But focusing too intently on the play’s stimulating politics risks scanting its humor and its family dynamics.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2017

Volumes as heavily freighted with plates, maps and other cargo as this one have a way of scanting facts for four-color fanfares.

From Time Magazine Archive

He also accused intellectuals of scanting current cruelties and injustices.

From Time Magazine Archive

Brecht made the astronomer into an opportunist and, scanting history, into a sensualist.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wind scanting upon us, we could not fetch the land, so that we were forced to ply to windward.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time by Robert Kerr