stint
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During Owens’ stint in Chicago, Biles regularly traveled between Illinois and Texas as construction continued on the couple’s custom mansion outside Houston.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026
Ohtani is feeling “considerably” better than he was before the IL stint, according to Roberts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Sheehan, too, was not an expected announcement, with the former Leeds, Leicester and Luton full-back out of work since November 2025 when he was sacked by Swansea City following a relatively unsuccessful seven-month stint.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The shake-up will herald the end of Samuelsson’s second stint as CEO of Volvo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
I say no, I’ve already had a stint of free lodging and now I have to take my chances with the market like anyone else.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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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 midfielder has returned to his boyhood club after 15 years away - including two spells at Athletic Club and stints at Manchester United, Paris St-Germain and Boca.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Like many of his relatives, Farrer has worked at the company, including stints in Latin America, Australia and Europe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
All-Star closer Edwin Díaz has blown four saves while saving just seven games this season in between stints on the injured list — Tucker and Díaz, insult to injury.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
After stints in North Carolina, New York, Florida, Virginia, California, and a handful of other states, he returned home to southern Maryland and started work at a job that would change his life.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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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
Lord Mountjoy was mightily proud of Cedric, as I well knew, and had stinted not to boast of him on occasion as a Mountjoy lad with a head as well as hands.
From Cedric, the Forester by Bernard Gay Marshall
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
The minor duds — the flea-beetled eggplants, the stinting watermelons — were overshadowed by all the successes, including a surfeit of choice varieties of tomatoes, greens, beans, squashes and okra, to name a few.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2020
It seems stinting to criticize servers, who are essential workers coping in far-from-ideal circumstances.
From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2020
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
I narrated its events, not stinting Pro Bono’s actions therein.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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