spartan
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He limits himself to a coffee from Starbucks in the morning and a spartan lunch to free up funds for a satisfying dinner.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
For example, he has covered the walls of the previously spartan Oval Office with gold, paintings and ornaments.
From Barron's • Oct. 9, 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
The next morning, he woke up to a flurry of missed calls, asking him to come to the Pope's spartan accommodation at the Vatican's diplomatic mission near Manila's old Spanish quarter.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2025
Jomon villages and cemeteries do not consist of a few richly decorated houses and graves contrasting with numerous spartan ones but are instead rather uniform—suggesting that there was little social stratification into chiefs and commoners.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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