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Research on chemicals in clothing is scant and no ordinary clothing has been shown to cause systemic illness in consumers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

But he has had a scant presence at the network, according to CBS News insiders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

There was "scant evidence" of the understanding and documentation of the risks of taking the drug, the review team found.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

That’s because the latest inflation reading for July, which saw the consumer price index rise a scant 0.1% for the month, matched Wall Street’s forecast and curbed some inflation anxiety on Wall Street.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

What I’d really like to do is talk with the women, but I see scant chance of that.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

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

All the time as we went Bridget talked incessantly, although she became scanter and scanter of breath.

From The Story of Bawn by Katharine Tynan

A scant unceremonious "Hallo!" when we meet; a scanter "Night" or "Morning," according to the circumstances, when we part.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 14, 1914 by Various

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 Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

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

If it were so, and if the presence of the luggage indicated that of its owner, the good lady, arriving alone, must have met with the scantest welcome from the duke.

From The Indiscretion of the Duchess by Anthony Hope

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

In its endless scanning of surfaces and appearances, slice-of-life realism scants the substance of truth and reality.

From Time Magazine Archive

The time scants us for a dinner before the service in the church at Gernicour, and we must hasten or we be late.

From The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts by Fanny Y. Cory

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

Sadly scanted, however, are the American artists who heeded the siren call of Orientalism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Aboute three of the clocke in the afternoone the winde scanted, and wee minded to haue gone to Zante, but we could not for that night.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt

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

USAir executives strongly deny that they are scanting safety.

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

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

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles