stingy
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“Definitely turning the ball over, clean that up. Being stingy with the ball, being able to get the ball in playmakers’ hands and just continue to stay on the same page and move as one.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Those on big wages not paying their way may seem stingy.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
She details the exhausting effort of disputing her partner’s medical claims with insurance companies, which required her to navigate, in her words, “a stingy and Kafkaesque system of financial and social support.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Companies have bought back gobs of stock while turning stingy on dividends—they like that buybacks don’t require an ongoing commitment.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
She was merely furious that her parents, and Jamie’s too, had been so stingy that she had been away from home for less than one whole day and was already worried about survival money.
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
If an interest rate cap is too tight, all but the highest-rated customers might face higher annual fees and stingier rewards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 14, 2026
Second, a tight labor market meant millions of Americans moved into high-margin, employer-sponsored insurance, leaving stingier government plans behind.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026
They have also boosted their dividends at a time when other companies have been stingier with their payouts.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
That’s because the charitable deduction is getting slightly stingier next year for wealthy households that itemize.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2025
“Or maybe they got rich by being stingier, so they’ll pay less,” Muthu said.
From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman
The Colorado Avalanche rode swagger, poise and the league’s stingiest goaltender to the best record in the NHL this season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
And the defense morphed into the stingiest unit in the entire sport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
The Buccaneers hung 40 points on the NFL’s stingiest defense.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024
He helped recruit some of the Ramblers’ best players and basically coordinated a defense that ranked among the nation’s stingiest.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 2024
Whose whims had been taken seriously by adults and who grew up to be the stingiest, greediest people on earth and out of their stinginess grew their stingy little love that ate everything in sight.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
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