spartan
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Slate Auto, a Michigan-based carmaker backed by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, is racing to begin production later this year of its first model: an overtly spartan, compact truck that will start at $24,950.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
Ibrahimi, whose four children huddled around the stove in her spartan living room, is one of 10 single mothers living in the new community.
From Barron's ● Feb. 1, 2026
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
Unwilling to face the loneliness of the airfield’s spartan accommodation, or a dour granite-faced Aberdeen landlady who wouldn’t accept her ration coupons for an unarranged evening meal, Maddie opted for the train.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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