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Millions of Jews arrived from Eastern Europe beginning in the 1880s, often settling in neighborhoods with little open space and scant money to spend on recreation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Elsewhere, Healey's Budget "offers scant relief from 'grim picture'", the paper says.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

While he has expressed a desire to lower costs, Becerra has released scant details about how he would do it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

ETF investors, Panigirtzoglou points out, bought into the first South Korean selloff using levered and unlevered funds, but so far in October’s Korea selloff 2.0, evidence of this buying is scant.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

“Just about any offense will do, even if it bears scant relation to the likelihood the applicant will be a good tenant.”

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

With new Simpson revelations ever scanter, the connected tale of his longtime friend A.C.

From Time Magazine Archive

On scant notice and even scanter knowledge, the TV executive must decide whether the threat is news to be covered, or a cruel, senseless display that the cameras will only encourage.

From Time Magazine Archive

From this time Be something scanter of your maiden presence; Set your entreatments at a higher rate Than a command to parley.

From Hamlet by William Shakespeare

A scant unceremonious "Hallo!" when we meet; a scanter "Night" or "Morning," according to the circumstances, when we part.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 14, 1914 by Various

It was a scanter and shallower stream, however, than when he left it, for now the long heats of the summer had shrunken all the watercourses.

From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts

I acknowledge I am a sample group of one, with only the scantest evidence to work with.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

If all you have is a faint recollection that a distant relative once bought you a bond, NS&I can find out for sure with the scantest of information, says Ms Waters.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2022

The marker is engraved with the scantest details of Lyles’s life: “Born May 8, 1898. Killed on Smoot’s Dredging Machine Sept. 1, 1917.”

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2020

It has rounded corners and just the scantest of frames above and on the sides of it.

From The Verge ● Sep. 11, 2017

He had so far treated the agent with the scantest civility during their progress through the house; and Tyson's northern blood had boiled more than once.

From The Mating of Lydia by Mrs. Humphry Ward

As the National Association of Scholars will soon publish in a comprehensive piece by S. Stanley Young and Warren Kindzierski, the Reference Manual pervasively scants the effects of modern science’s irreproducibility crisis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026

While “Kissinger” scants the tapes, it leans precariously on one source.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025

In her impressionistic portrait, Brown moves some events in time, combines others and scants certain family members — entirely omitting, for example, William’s son, John, a famous scientist in his own right.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2016

But, possibly because of budgetary restraints, the film pretty much scants the revolution.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when the grudging spinner scants Her thread and fate no surcease grants From grief most deep and need most wearing, Less calm our bearing.

From Laments by Dorothea Prall

Hospitals and heroic interventions got the large investments; incrementalists were scanted.

From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017

The implications of the technology, on the other hand, are somewhat scanted.

From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2016

Earlier biographies — the best is Lyndall Gordon’s — have somewhat scanted Eliot’s American childhood and youth, which is one reason why this new book is so valuable.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2015

Historians have scanted the Normans' other conquest, and the world has all but forgotten it.

From Time Magazine Archive

S. Because it is a blessing that he bestows on beasts: and what he hath scanted men in hair, he hath 80 given them in wit.

From The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William George Clark

But focusing too intently on the play’s stimulating politics risks scanting its humor and its family dynamics.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2017

He also accused intellectuals of scanting current cruelties and injustices.

From Time Magazine Archive

Volumes as heavily freighted with plates, maps and other cargo as this one have a way of scanting facts for four-color fanfares.

From Time Magazine Archive

What some describe as today's apathy or scanting of heaven, he calls health.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wind scanting upon us, we could not fetch the land, so that we were forced to ply to windward.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time by Robert Kerr