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To solve the problem of sparse liquidity, the LSE needs the help of a broader cultural shift in the U.K.,

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 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

And what the photos ultimately show has been school-play-level infrastructure and comically sparse attendance.

From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026

His intellect was a sparse acreage indeed but Pinkie got along by wearing a perpetual smile on his face and having an uncanny knack for repairing the engines of his teachers’ automobiles.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

But Greenville offers the same access to the great outdoors, along with a food scene that punches above its weight—all with sparser crowds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 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

They wander, as we do, searching for facts to fit their sparser stock of hypotheses, but when the receptor meets its match, there is only a single thud.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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

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