sparse

Experts called it a "special surprise" to find the "incredibly sparse moth" in the habitat.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

But when Walker and Auen plunge our cipher, Béatrice, into the world of sparse electrostatic video, the result is both harrowing and unbelievably beautiful.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

If USC had maintained its traditional rivalry scheduling with Notre Dame this season, they would have sold out the Coliseum on Thanksgiving Saturday instead of subjecting a sparse August crowd to possible heatstroke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026

Its dry climate and sparse vegetation leave fossil-bearing rocks exposed, while its geology contains sedimentary layers of the right age to preserve dinosaur remains.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

We hiked through the sparse woods, making our way carefully down the beaten path we had created that summer, the summer of the mariposas.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

New entries are sparser now than in the years following the Covid pandemic, when the auto industry ground to a halt, and in the aftermath of the auto industry crisis of the 2007-09 recession.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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

Since then, not much is known of her personal life and her film appearances have grown sparser.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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

Throughout human history, centralized states with metal weapons and armies supported by dense agricultural populations have swept away sparser populations of stone-tool-using hunter-gatherers.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

By 18 months, he had only the sparsest wisps of blond hair, and had yet to produce a single tooth.

From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023

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

From Scientific American ● Oct. 15, 2021

At the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, security officers reported some of the sparsest crowds they’ve seen as they prepared to shutter the popular museum Friday.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 13, 2020

That said, the rest of the freestyle – which lasts nearly eight minutes, set to the sparsest of backings – has little or nothing to do with Trump.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2016

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