spartan
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They often live in spartan conditions and earn meager wages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
Better is Danny Elfman’s spartan and fraught score, particularly the dyspeptic drums.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
That has long supported its dense network of picture houses -- around 80 today -- where film lovers can catch classics and auteur productions in sometimes cramped conditions and with spartan decoration.
From Barron's • Nov. 29, 2025
It’s not a 2005 LG flip phone, but it’s more spartan than what most of us use today.
From Slate • Sep. 5, 2025
Auma had arranged for me and Barack to stay in a friend’s empty apartment, a spartan one-bedroom in a nondescript cinder-block building that had been painted bright pink.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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