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As rumors about his condition continue to fly online, McConnell’s office has offered scant information since.

From Salon ● Jul. 2, 2026

“The trouble is that there is scant evidence for this dramatically revisionist view,” he wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

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

Details are still scant, although we do now know that GTA 6 will be available to pre-order on 25 June, the developer has announced.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

And so it was that he found himself stepping aboard a silk sleigh a scant hour later.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

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

For this time Daughter, Be somewhat scanter of your Maiden presence; Set your entreatments at a higher rate, Then a command to parley.

From Hamlet by Shakespeare, William

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

From The Story of Bawn by Tynan, Katharine

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 Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

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

She saw herself as an archaeologist who could reconstruct the workings of an underground metropolis based on the scantest traces on the surface.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 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 Hope, Anthony

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

Unfortunately, when he turns to love, politics, and even his happy fourth marriage to Oona O'Neill, he scants both fact and feeling in favor of the name-dropping prose of a standard show-biz autobiography.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this book dedicated to a Pope he scants nothing of his hatred of the Holy See.

From Machiavelli, Volume I by Dacres, Edward

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

Historians have scanted the Normans' other conquest, and the world has all but forgotten it.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the first of August the winde scanted, and from thence forward we had very fowl weather with much raine, thundering, and great spouts, which fell round about vs nigh vnto our ships.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. by Hakluyt, Richard

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

Brecht made the astronomer into an opportunist and, scanting history, into a sensualist.

From Time Magazine Archive

He also accused intellectuals of scanting current cruelties and injustices.

From Time Magazine Archive

What some describe as today's apathy or scanting of heaven, he calls health.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wind scanting upon us, we could not fetch the land, so that we were forced to ply to windward.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time by Kerr, Robert