sparsely

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My acute distress flared up after my wife and I split up and I moved out of our farmhouse in upstate New York to a sparsely furnished apartment.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

The first families from outside the islands only settled in 1969, encouraged by the government who feared losing control of the sparsely populated territory.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

Levy plays Nicky, a pastor at a sparsely attended suburban New Jersey church of no evident denomination.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026

In the sparsely populated Kuiper Belt, these distant bodies drift with relatively few collisions, allowing fragile structures to survive.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

Caleb’s welcome grew louder as we drove along the sparsely tree-lined road that would bring us to Ma Charles’s property.

From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia