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In a 38-word statement that was sparse on details, the company said it signed a memorandum of understanding to evaluate drilling opportunities with the Venezuelan government and its state-run oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2026

Public details are sparse about the woman, also known as Huang Le, who had reportedly been a top figure at a Singapore-based data centre company called Megaspeed International.

From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026

The prevalence of CTE in college, high school and youth tackle football players is a growing concern even though data is sparse because the disease can’t be detected until death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

They found no juveniles, suggesting that the known population is extremely sparse.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026

He had sparse white hair and eyes the color of turquoise.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

“Autumn,” while sparser, has its subjects massed at the edges, offering a connection between the verdant periods that come before and the chilly days that lay ahead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

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

It’s a volcanic buildup of a song, from the sparsest ticking electronics to a hard-rock stomp to a full-scale pileup of guitars, drums and horns.

From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

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

From Scientific American ● Oct. 15, 2021

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