scantest
Example Sentences
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I acknowledge I am a sample group of one, with only the scantest evidence to work with.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
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
The marker is engraved with the scantest details of Lyles’s life: “Born May 8, 1898. Killed on Smoot’s Dredging Machine Sept. 1, 1917.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2020
It has rounded corners and just the scantest of frames above and on the sides of it.
From The Verge ● Sep. 11, 2017
Such a serious limitation in a critic as deficiency of reading in his case only raises our astonishment at the sureness of instinct which enabled him to pronounce unerringly on the scantest information.
From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Jacob Zeitlin
