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Some had waited all afternoon in sweltering heat beneath the scant shade of umbrellas, while others, the best prepared, had set up their telescopes.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

Consumer prices probably rose a scant 0.1% in July after declining in June for the first time in six years, according to a poll of economists by the Wall Street Journal.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

Besides campaigning for Lindsey, Darline has a scant track record.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

Researchers have scant records to draw upon when trying to understand homeschooling, a legal gray area for much of the 20th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Hard-hearted Robbie paid scant attention to this dreadful possibility, and shook his head a third time.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

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

“You will get a scanter portion with your wife than you would have gotten if—we had heard no news.”

From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

It was a scanter and shallower stream, however, than when he left it, for now the long heats of the summer had shrunken all the watercourses.

From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

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 said, in his Cosmic Philosophy: “The process of evolution is itself the working out of a mighty Teleology of which our finite understandings can fathom but the scantest rudiments.”

From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various

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

Unfortunately, when he turns to love, politics, and even his happy fourth marriage to Oona O'Neill, he scants both fact and feeling in favor of the name-dropping prose of a standard show-biz autobiography.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this book dedicated to a Pope he scants nothing of his hatred of the Holy See.

From Machiavelli, Volume I by Edward Dacres

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

The dissonances of Wagner's life are scanted, but the sonic sensuousness of his work is served boldly, briefly and well.

From Time Magazine Archive

Monsieur's purse afforded no holiday-dress but a shroud; three of these in requisition within so short a time quite scanted the wardrobe of the other children.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 by Various

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

What some describe as today's apathy or scanting of heaven, he calls health.

From Time Magazine Archive

But high prices since the war have tempted most builders into cutting corners, cramping spaces, and scanting on wall thicknesses.

From Time Magazine Archive

In all but this, Not scanting labour, I will do my part.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles