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I could watch this kind of guilt-ridden post-apocalyptic movie for hours; instead, this lasts a scant 82 minutes.
From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2026
Details of the last broadcast were scant, with show insiders tight-lipped when contacted by AFP.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
Add March and February together, and employment rose by a scant 23,000 on average in the two months.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
The papers are swimming with headlines predicting failure, with scant reporting on what’s really happening to and in Iran.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026
Between the long march in the impossible shoes and the scant and awful breakfast, how could they now work all day?
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
Vocabulary lists containing scant
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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