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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
Despite all the avoidable deaths and harms that have been revealed by these investigations, they see scant evidence that anyone in positions of authority has been held to account.
From BBC • Jun. 24, 2026
With scant due process, the Pentagon deemed Anthropic a supply-chain risk and ordered its models removed from military systems.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026
A red hat here and there, a scant handful of Trump T-shirts, and very little talk of politics at all.
From Slate • Jun. 16, 2026
The Hermes crew enjoyed their scant personal time in an area called "the Rec."
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
Vocabulary lists containing scant
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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