skimp
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Like many advisers, Mallon urges his older clients to prioritize their own needs — and live large — rather than skimp and save so that their heirs inherit more.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 13, 2026
If a company wants to attract and retain the talent it needs to thrive, it can’t skimp on compensation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
Which are expensive and the reason some polls skimp on the number of people they interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
Janis James, chief executive of Good Egg Safety, urged parents not to "skimp" on cash when purchasing car seats for children.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2025
The sixth graders are determined to make more links than everybody else, so they skimp on the glue and their chain comes apart.
From "Linked" by Gordon Korman
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But that doesn’t mean it skimps on activities, thanks in part to its $115 million refresh in 2019.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025
But when Magalie skimps on ferry tickets, the barely reunited pals wind up waylaid on a different, tiny island populated almost exclusively by archaeologists and surfers.
From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
A restaurant on the outskirts of Nairobi skimps on the size of its chapatis - a flaky, chewy Kenyan flatbread - to save on cooking oil.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
She allows Belly to be a teenager in all of her messy glory, but never skimps on the enthusiastic charisma and vulnerability that lends authenticity.
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2022
Every time you see a Sandwich-Board without it you may be sure it belongs to a merchant who skimps his Advertising Appropriation.
From H. R. by Lefevre, Edwin
Nietzsche said God is dead, but skimped on details of how we’d deal with the corpse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026
Companies have skimped on dividends amid an epic bull run for stock prices, leaving the S&P 500’s yield of just 1.1% looking like finance’s vestigial tailbone—an evolutionary holdover without a clear purpose.
From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025
Citroen's Koskas said the carmaker had no desire to make the new C3 a "technological Christmas tree" but had not skimped on what mattered.
From Reuters ● Oct. 17, 2023
To 32-year-old me, I could see the value in paying; it’s not like we skimped on her care to afford this session.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2023
I had no time to tell him that his friend Rasseem had not skimped either.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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That hasn’t stopped some people from posting pictures and videos on social media of scrawny sandwiches, accusing the company of skimping on meat portions since Blackstone got involved.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
"Sometimes I would have asked my mum after we'd ended up in hospital overnight if she could transfer me money as I wasn't expecting to be here, we were skimping to get by," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
TJ’s Maple Leaf Ice Cream Sandwiches are made in Canada by a Canadian confectioner — so you know TJ’s isn’t skimping on any maple flavorings.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2025
And with good reason: This is a fantastically outlandish production that delivers a kind of large-scale razzmatazz that has become rare — no skimping here.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2024
On a bracing afternoon, he escorted Weaver into the Radiation Laboratory and showed him the twenty-seven-inch cyclotron, not skimping on the vaudeville of the lavender deuteron beam shooting into the air.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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