thriftiness

Example Sentences

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Consumer companies are counting on consumers’ thriftiness to go away eventually.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

Where employers like Google and Facebook became known for cushy workplaces and generous salaries, Amazon is an infamously competitive and sometimes bruising workplace where employees were rewarded for thriftiness.

From Washington Post • Mar. 27, 2023

Events will include craft demonstrations, re-enactments and some will even highlight the Viking's thriftiness, Mr Henry said.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2023

Chicken's popularity can in large part be traced to its thriftiness.

From Salon • Mar. 5, 2022

It is hardly necessary to say that it prospered for no Winkler had ever been born lacking the virtue of wise thriftiness, or the ability to make small savings bring in generous increase.

From Jane Lends A Hand by Watkins, Shirley