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[stint] / stɪnt /




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Winfrey said she was inspired to create “AHA”—a reference to a lightbulb moment—after seeing the opening night of U2’s stint at Sphere.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

The 80-year-old billionaire has promoted his family's golf business unabashedly since returning to the White House for his second stint as president in January 2025.

From Barron's Sep. 12, 2026

Your first stint, where you went from 10th to first, was so impressive.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

Still, Gervais remained undeterred, doubling and tripling down on his comedy and delivering a since-viral “I don’t care” monologue during his final hosting stint.

From Salon Sep. 8, 2026

After every sixteen-mile stint in Idaho, Grandpa Ed is there just as he’s promised, in the location her “team” has scoped out.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Instead, he followed a circuitous path that included cult comedy fame and sitcom stints.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

He spent 19 years with the company, spanning two different stints, and commanded respect both internally and externally, according to Thill.

From MarketWatch Sep. 3, 2026

The day my classes were deleted in 2021, I did an emergency phone shrink session where my therapist reminded me that with stints as a poet, novelist and journalist, I was well-versed at reinvention.

From Salon Aug. 24, 2026

Smith served more than 70 years behind bars - other than three short stints of freedom.

From BBC Aug. 19, 2026

Before that, his career with horses stretched back to boyhood, with stints as a deer hunter, sheep-ranch foreman, mountain-lion tracker.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Five or six spring-times, welcomed joyously, lovingly watched from the first celandine to the budding of the rose; who shall dare to call it a stinted boon?

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 14, 2025

The administration also hasn’t stinted on disaster aid.

From Seattle Times Feb. 28, 2023

Or at least approaches its end, as we did on Saturday, four days before the fall equinox, on a day that may have stinted on true summer heat but supplied generous helpings of humidity.

From Washington Post Sep. 18, 2021

Wealthy countries stinted the cash they offered to poor nations to get clean technology.

From BBC Jul. 6, 2021

Yes; don't you think, Ann," said Emily, "she has stinted herself to make five yards of netting to-day.

From Mind Amongst the Spindles by Various

Without stinting on Singapore expansion plans, Sands could buy back 20% to 30% of its current market capitalization, says Goldman.

From Barron's Dec. 23, 2025

All these styles come together in “The Percussionist’s Art,” his 2006 book that is a kind of memoir in music: poetic and thoughtful, but without stinting on detailed measure-by-measure advice for his fellow performers.

From New York Times May 23, 2022

We remain convinced, in contradiction of all the available evidence, that stinting on sleep makes us heroic and industrious, rather than stupid and fat.

From The New Yorker Dec. 3, 2018

My own were slow to get established, lacked vigor, flopped and were stinting in flower.

From Washington Post Oct. 8, 2018

“No stinting, I see,” Luke said, taking up a fork with a gesture which would have confirmed his aunt’s worst suspicions.

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson




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