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But he has had a scant presence at the network, according to CBS News insiders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

There was "scant evidence" of the understanding and documentation of the risks of taking the drug, the review team found.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

That’s because the latest inflation reading for July, which saw the consumer price index rise a scant 0.1% for the month, matched Wall Street’s forecast and curbed some inflation anxiety on Wall Street.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026

The front-runner was Francesca Hong, a State Assemblywoman and DSA member who, according to the scant few surveys conducted, held a dominant lead over the moderate candidates in the field.

From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026

The jerfalcon which had been given to Lancelot was not property through her moult Like Hamlet she was fat and scant of breath.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

On scant notice and even scanter knowledge, the TV executive must decide whether the threat is news to be covered, or a cruel, senseless display that the cameras will only encourage.

From Time Magazine Archive

With new Simpson revelations ever scanter, the connected tale of his longtime friend A.C.

From Time Magazine Archive

For this time Daughter, Be somewhat scanter of your Maiden presence; Set your entreatments at a higher rate, Then a command to parley.

From Hamlet by William Shakespeare

All the time as we went Bridget talked incessantly, although she became scanter and scanter of breath.

From The Story of Bawn by Katharine Tynan

There was scant chance that the call would be carried to her by the boisterous wind, scanter chance still that, hearing it now in that mad rout, she would heed.

From On the Firing Line by Hamilton Brock Fuller

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

The portrait accompanying the volume gave us, alas, but the scantest satisfaction.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James

As the National Association of Scholars will soon publish in a comprehensive piece by S. Stanley Young and Warren Kindzierski, the Reference Manual pervasively scants the effects of modern science’s irreproducibility crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

While “Kissinger” scants the tapes, it leans precariously on one source.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025

In her impressionistic portrait, Brown moves some events in time, combines others and scants certain family members — entirely omitting, for example, William’s son, John, a famous scientist in his own right.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2016

This bald summary scants Commoner's enviable skill at explaining complicated technical issues in lucid and lively terms.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its inhabitants are meagre and stunted; it scants them both in food and drink.

From A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees by Edwin Asa Dix

Hospitals and heroic interventions got the large investments; incrementalists were scanted.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017

The implications of the technology, on the other hand, are somewhat scanted.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2016

Earlier biographies — the best is Lyndall Gordon’s — have somewhat scanted Eliot’s American childhood and youth, which is one reason why this new book is so valuable.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2015

He begged, wheedled, scolded, scandalized others and scanted himself to secure bread-and-but ter money for them and for many another subsequently famed writer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mutimer, we know, had got for himself only the most profitless of educations, and in addition nature had scanted him on the emotional side.

From Demos by George Gissing

But focusing too intently on the play’s stimulating politics risks scanting its humor and its family dynamics.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2017

In the second offering of its premiere engagement in Los Angeles, the British National Theater performs with its usual eclat while somewhat scanting the poetic mood music of the play.

From Time Magazine Archive

USAir executives strongly deny that they are scanting safety.

From Time Magazine Archive

Brecht made the astronomer into an opportunist and, scanting history, into a sensualist.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wind scanting upon us, we could not fetch the land, so that we were forced to ply to windward.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time by Robert Kerr