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Evidence for many of these contentions is scant or absent.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Joao Pedro's stoppage-time overhead kick did save Chelsea the humiliation of losing six matches in a row without scoring for the first time in their history, but it was scant consolation.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
But the so-called “liberty city” experiment, in which communities agree to lean governments, little to no taxation and scant regulation, never grew into a large-scale movement.
From Salon • May 3, 2026
The mission statements for xAI and its chatbot Grok give scant mention to dangers of the technology even though Musk once called it an "existential threat" to humanity.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
There Ernie Lawrence and Merle Tuve grew up together in tidy houses facing each other across the street, Merle the elder by a scant six weeks.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Vocabulary lists containing scant
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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