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The Thai-Cambodia conflict flared over a smattering of border temples, contested because of a vague territorial demarcation made by Cambodia's French colonial administrators in 1907.

I worked a smattering of odd jobs—managing the front desk at the anthropology department and writing stories for the student newspaper—but the money I made wasn’t much.

Niamh Sprout wore a smattering of chunky silver rings, which complemented the long black nails she had dug into the parkway soil as Smart-McCabe did her plant demo.

Its perfect averageness makes it easy to dismiss, but it’s a painless, pleasant half-hour, with a smattering of genuine laughs.

It’s an extremely low number, which has only been matched a smattering of times since the 1960s.