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And the Taliban forces were able to fashion IEDs from the scantiest of materials, packing explosives into recycled plastic containers as small as pint water bottles and drawing currents from strings of used batteries.

This is a curious claim given that the shelter publications of recent decades have featured airy, minimalist spaces with only the scantiest, most artful clutter, certainly no unsightly children’s toys, dog crates or television screens.

He makes assertions with the scantiest of proof, but delivered with utter certainty.

And the Indiana governor has only the scantiest of personal relationships with the man whose political future has rapidly melded with his own.

Officers offered only the scantiest of descriptions of the suspects: three males, two of them white and one black.