thrifty
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She was a thrifty person who rarely spent money on herself.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Wall Street Journal spoke to thrifty soccer admirers about how they made their World Cup dreams a reality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
By tipoff, the market corrected a bit, and a standing room only ticket could be found for a thrifty $5,000—still enough cash to enjoy Hawaii.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
In keeping with this thrifty living, most of his exercise is done using free outdoor gyms, with his online followers holding him to account for that, too.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
In mid-September, Joe returned from the Grand Coulee with enough money to make it through another year if he was thrifty.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
While affluent Americans are getting thriftier on essentials, they are still spending on extras like wellness and travel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
But new survey data show that baby boomers — America’s richest generation and one often perceived as being thriftier those that followed — are more wasteful in certain spending categories than younger people.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026
Maquiladoras brought jobs to Mexico and thriftier price points for cost-conscious consumers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2025
Sun Lee, who owns a women's clothing boutique Aria in Toronto, noticed fewer and thriftier customers entering the store since the pandemic.
From Reuters ● Mar. 22, 2023
Her mother looked over her own stores, but the thriftier kind of French people put away now and then some plenishing for their children.
From A Little Girl in Old Detroit by Amanda Minnie Douglas
United already was one of the thriftiest spenders in MLS, and the latest belt-tightening left Olsen squeezing all he could out of a depleted roster.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2020
San Francisco Bay Area water users — some with no lawns —were among the thriftiest, using around 70 gallons of water per person per day.
From US News ● Apr. 2, 2015
Overnight I became the thriftiest person you’ve ever met—bar those people who split their toilet paper in half.
From Forbes ● Sep. 10, 2014
At just over two hours, with intermission, it’s certainly the thriftiest “Threepenny Opera” I’ve yet seen.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2014
Sixty-five per cent. of France's population is rural, and France is prosperous, and her people are the thriftiest and most saving in the world.
From The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
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