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Keeping such a sparse, specified operation going means narrowing budgets wherever possible, especially when it comes to managing Canopy’s investments and data.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

Mr. Hegseth has denied the press reports of sparse food and bad plumbing, and anecdotal accounts should be viewed cautiously in a crew of about 5,000.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

Soccer Federation backed in a sparse post on X.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

To be sure, the session was looking volatile even before the Fed released its decision to leave interest-rates on hold, coupled with another now-characteristically sparse policy statement at 2 p.m.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 29, 2026

His sparse hair was long and stringy; his nose drooped wearily above his upper lip, which in turn drooped toward his chin in a most mournful expression.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

The Lower Woodies had a sparser insurance policy, but more wiggle room in its rules about rebuilding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

However, Williams said, there are important differences between regions where fires erupt in forests with abundant vegetation fuel and regions like Southern California, where fires often burn through sparser shrubs and grasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025

In contrast to conventional computing where every part of the system is always on and available to communicate with any other part all the time, activation in neuromorphic computing can be sparser.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2024

While experts had previously speculated that Gigantopithecus was driven to extinction as their preferred forest habitats became sparser, the known fossils of the ape lacked defined dates to test the idea.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 10, 2024

Trees became sparser, and Tristran stared up at the mountains in front of them, and he gasped.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

In this case, the error is making a call based on the sparsest of evidence.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 15, 2021

There is the couple with two daughters, known until recently by only the sparsest of details: They’d moved into the big house that replaced the old house that was razed after its original owner died.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2020

Turnouts for elections in 2014, 2015 and 2016 ranked among the sparsest in Indiana and broke local records for all-time lows.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2018

The more successful moments, at least from a purely musical standpoint, were the sparsest: a solo piano performance by John Legend, and a similarly scaled delivery by Taylor Swift, before she shifted into hair-tossing bombast.

From Chicago Tribune ● Jan. 27, 2014

It’s the sparsest bed I’ve ever seen: small and pale yellow with a sheet, a topsheet, and one pillow.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini