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And she had made homelessness her marquee issue with scant progress to show despite throwing billions at the problem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

Elsewhere, Healey's Budget "offers scant relief from 'grim picture'", the paper says.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

While he has expressed a desire to lower costs, Becerra has released scant details about how he would do it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

ETF investors, Panigirtzoglou points out, bought into the first South Korean selloff using levered and unlevered funds, but so far in October’s Korea selloff 2.0, evidence of this buying is scant.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

Between the long march in the impossible shoes and the scant and awful breakfast, how could they now work all day?

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren

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

So when Burns knocked, Will knit his brows,   His window gap made scanter, 50 And said, 'Go rouse the other house;   We lodge no Tam O'Shanter!'

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

A scant unceremonious "Hallo!" when we meet; a scanter "Night" or "Morning," according to the circumstances, when we part.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 14, 1914 by Various

Jim rather unsteadily filled; I emulated, but to scanter measure.

From Desert Dust by J. Clinton Shepherd

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

With the scantest possible time for preparation, there was no wasting of the precious minutes.

From The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde

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 British National Theater production, color-filmed on stagelike sets with a restrained cinema technique, is a one-man show that scants Iago to star Laurence Olivier as the Moor.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this book dedicated to a Pope he scants nothing of his hatred of the Holy See.

From Machiavelli, Volume I by Edward Dacres

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

But one aim will not be scanted: attack on the problem of why twice as many young women as young men between the ages of 15 and 24 die from tuberculosis.

From Time Magazine Archive

O the Prior of Roche Was without reproach While with saintly monks he chanted; But when from the mass He had turned his face, The prior his saintship scanted.

From The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme by Thomas Cooper

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

He also accused intellectuals of scanting current cruelties and injustices.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

What some describe as today's apathy or scanting of heaven, he calls health.

From Time Magazine Archive

In all but this, Not scanting labour, I will do my part.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles