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As rumors about his condition continue to fly online, McConnell’s office has offered scant information since.

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026

“The trouble is that there is scant evidence for this dramatically revisionist view,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

True, the 10-year and two-year Treasury bills are safely un-inverted now, but corporate bond spreads relative to Treasuries are tight, offering investors scant upside for additional risk.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

England began a baking final day with scant hope of an escape, resuming on 182-5, chasing a notional 463.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

The rivalry weighed heavily at the Rad Lab: having learned that Brookhaven was about to submit its proposal, Lawrence gave Brobeck and his design staff a scant two weeks to finish theirs.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The trees become scanter as we near the top.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Dix, Edwin Asa

For this time Daughter, Be somewhat scanter of your Maiden presence; Set your entreatments at a higher rate, Then a command to parley.

From Hamlet by Shakespeare, William

After the terrible dangers of the voyage, with scant sleep and scanter fare, the country seemed, as Radisson says, a terrestrial paradise.

From Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

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

The marker is engraved with the scantest details of Lyles’s life: “Born May 8, 1898. Killed on Smoot’s Dredging Machine Sept. 1, 1917.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2020

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

From The Verge ● Sep. 11, 2017

She saw herself as an archaeologist who could reconstruct the workings of an underground metropolis based on the scantest traces on the surface.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2017

He lived by the grace of McKee's cowardice and that cowardice had permitted this triumph by the scantest possible margin.

From The Last Straw by Titus, Harold

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

Tales is being given its U.S. premiere at New Haven's Yale Repertory Theater in an intelligent, well-articulated production that scants none of the play's corrosive undertones.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when the grudging spinner scants Her thread and fate no surcease grants From grief most deep and need most wearing, Less calm our bearing.

From Laments by Prall, Dorothea

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

Those seriously interested in the actual goings-on will be scanted unless they can find the full thing on cable.

From Time Magazine Archive

S. Because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts: and what he hath scanted men in hair, he hath 80 given them in wit.

From The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Clark, William George

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

In the second offering of its premiere engagement in Los Angeles, the British National Theater performs with its usual eclat while somewhat scanting the poetic mood music of the play.

From Time Magazine Archive

He also accused intellectuals of scanting current cruelties and injustices.

From Time Magazine Archive

USAir executives strongly deny that they are scanting safety.

From Time Magazine Archive

So it was necessary to go down at once and waste whole minutes of the precious scanting light.

From Sea Warfare by Kipling, Rudyard