scrimp
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The mother of a girl who was crushed by a bus and trapped after it flipped while the family were on their first ever holiday abroad has urged people not to "scrimp" on travel insurance.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
However, I don’t want my son to think that I will take care of everything and that he doesn’t have to work hard and scrimp and save.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026
She meets and marries fellow student Jen Chao-Pe, and together they move into a dilapidated walk-up in Washington Heights, where Agnes learns to scrimp and save and paint her own walls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2025
You might want to scrimp and save, but this isn’t the time for that.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2024
This book was too important to scrimp on details.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
Down the hall, 56-year-old Janine Cox gets an occasional bag of chips from the vending machine and scrimps to add to the collection plate at church.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
As for the podcast itself, our central aim is to provide listeners with 20 minutes every day that never scrimps on storytelling but is anchored in the news agenda.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 24, 2018
If your mom scrimps on tools, you know she won't buy garden decor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2016
If I have one criticism of Passan’s book, it is that he scrimps on the history of pitchers’ arms.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2016
Na, he seldom scrimps 't to them 'at follows his biddin'.
From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by George MacDonald
To pay for the house, he said, he scrimped and saved during his freshman year, riding a secondhand bike instead of buying a car.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
My mom and dad were extremely frugal; they scrimped and saved.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025
"We scrimped and saved. My wife had to go out and find a part time job. I had a young baby and daughter and milk tokens was the only thing I was entitled to."
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2024
She tried to focus on the work, but was beset by dread: Had a wildfire taken the home she scrimped to buy on a housekeeper’s wages?
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Knowing that we ate at school, Mrs. Moss scrimped even more at home, often serving only thin sandwiches for supper.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
“We have been scrimping for a long time.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
‘I worked very hard’: I’m 71 and have $6 million after scrimping and saving.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 7, 2026
"It's literally scrimping and scraping to be able to manage to get one lesson a week," she says.
From BBC ● May 24, 2025
But experts say that’s bad news for the economy, because widespread scrimping is contributing to a dramatic slowdown in growth this year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
He understood that some things during the years of my "scrimping" had borne fruit.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
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