scantest
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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
Only by the expensive construction of cemented cisterns and occasional dams can the rancher, stockman and miner of the region hoard for his scantest needs enough of this precious fluid.
From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by James, George Wharton