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In her new drama, Lucky, Anya Taylor-Joy doesn’t skimp on the fake blood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Karia doesn’t skimp on it, but then again, neither did Shakespeare, and the film is faithful, even if nipped and tucked for running time’s sake.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

It’s what I like to call a maximalist egg — an egg, whether omelet, scrambled, or even hard-boiled, that doesn’t skimp on anything.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

WSJ | Buy Side: The best cheap car insurance providers offer low rates but don’t skimp on coverage options.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026

Having made a special case of Ernest Lawrence in one of his first official acts as Berkeley’s president, Sproul was not about to skimp on his new star’s research budget.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

But that doesn’t mean it skimps on activities, thanks in part to its $115 million refresh in 2019.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2025

But when Magalie skimps on ferry tickets, the barely reunited pals wind up waylaid on a different, tiny island populated almost exclusively by archaeologists and surfers.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2023

A restaurant on the outskirts of Nairobi skimps on the size of its chapatis - a flaky, chewy Kenyan flatbread - to save on cooking oil.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

A restaurant on the outskirts of Nairobi skimps on the size of its chapatis — a flaky, chewy Kenyan flatbread — to save on cooking oil.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2023

He skimps the table, pares the cheese till the rind is as thin as paper, and makes her live on skim milk and barley.

From Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks by William Elliot Griffis

Nietzsche said God is dead, but skimped on details of how we’d deal with the corpse.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

Companies have skimped on dividends amid an epic bull run for stock prices, leaving the S&P 500’s yield of just 1.1% looking like finance’s vestigial tailbone—an evolutionary holdover without a clear purpose.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

Citroen's Koskas said the carmaker had no desire to make the new C3 a "technological Christmas tree" but had not skimped on what mattered.

From Reuters ● Oct. 17, 2023

But the 26-year-old social worker of Portland, Oregon, hasn’t skimped on her eye makeup — the mascara, eyeliner and eyeshadow she typically wears to work just above her face mask.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 4, 2022

I had no time to tell him that his friend Rasseem had not skimped either.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

A public debate is raging over for-profit schools, which critics say make money by skimping on playgrounds, libraries and staff.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

"Sometimes I would have asked my mum after we'd ended up in hospital overnight if she could transfer me money as I wasn't expecting to be here, we were skimping to get by," she said.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

“This shortfall not only undercuts their livelihoods but highlights the glaring hypocrisy of a luxury establishment profiting handsomely while skimping on fair pay for those who make it shine.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025

And with good reason: This is a fantastically outlandish production that delivers a kind of large-scale razzmatazz that has become rare — no skimping here.

From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2024

On a bracing afternoon, he escorted Weaver into the Radiation Laboratory and showed him the twenty-seven-inch cyclotron, not skimping on the vaudeville of the lavender deuteron beam shooting into the air.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik