skimpy
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If their next pay raise feels skimpy, workers may want to look at their healthcare benefits before shooting a dirty look at their boss.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026
Supino noted that Comcast didn’t take questions on its call earlier Monday and released a skimpy presentation on the split.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
It also subsidizes investment through taxes on households and a skimpy safety net, boosting saving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
It’s a double-whammy: no private money, yet skimpy public funds.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024
I soaked some dried puffballs in water, and when they were big and moist, I fried them with wild onions and skimpy old wild carrots and stuffed myself until I felt kindly toward all men.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
But their coverage tends to be skimpier and often costlier than policies sold by travel insurers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
It was so much skimpier than what he was used to with conventional farming that his costs on seeds and labor far exceeded the premiums bioRe paid.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2022
Aimee Cohen, a career coach based in Denver, said relocation packages have gotten skimpier and even executives wonder how long a gig will last.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2018
The report anticipates a smaller effect from the administration’s proposals to make it easier for consumers to buy two kinds of health plans with lower prices and skimpier benefits than the ACA allows.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2018
De underskirts was unbleached white cloth made jus' lak de dresses only some skimpier.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration
To say he has honored her story, though that’s true, is the skimpiest possible way to look at the achievement of “Dana H.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2021
This is but the skimpiest sliver of the plot of “A Great Reckoning.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2016
Economics, business, society and culture get only the skimpiest treatment.
From Economist ● Feb. 18, 2016
Even with Bocchiccio picking up the tab, Walcott is one of the skimpiest eaters big-time heavyweight boxing has ever known.
From Time Magazine Archive
The little, lop-sided cake at the church supper, the cheapest pincushion, the skimpiest apron at the bazaar, were always Mrs. Archie's contribution.
From The Song of the Lark by Willa Sibert Cather
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