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Lower readings indicate more sparse or stressed vegetation.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

To solve the problem of sparse liquidity, the LSE needs the help of a broader cultural shift in the U.K.,

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Mushroom Culture said he earns up to 50% less at River Farmers’ Market compared with sales at other L.A. farmers markets due to sparse foot traffic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

A "Great American State Fair" in the capital designed as a celebration of the country's birthday has drawn sparse crowds and widespread mockery for its empty booths.

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

The Delanys had old ties to the region, pruning the family tree into a lopsided sight: abundant and many-cousined in the north, sparse and faceless in the south.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

Stacks of wheat straws and corn stalks separated my village from the fields, where the growth was always a little sparser than we wanted it to be.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

However, Williams said, there are important differences between regions where fires erupt in forests with abundant vegetation fuel and regions like Southern California, where fires often burn through sparser shrubs and grasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025

In contrast to conventional computing where every part of the system is always on and available to communicate with any other part all the time, activation in neuromorphic computing can be sparser.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2024

While experts had previously speculated that Gigantopithecus was driven to extinction as their preferred forest habitats became sparser, the known fossils of the ape lacked defined dates to test the idea.

From National Geographic ● Jan. 10, 2024

The lights below grew sparser, and presently they came to a great dark gash in the city.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

In this case, the error is making a call based on the sparsest of evidence.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 15, 2021

There is the couple with two daughters, known until recently by only the sparsest of details: They’d moved into the big house that replaced the old house that was razed after its original owner died.

From New York Times ● May 1, 2020

Turnouts for elections in 2014, 2015 and 2016 ranked among the sparsest in Indiana and broke local records for all-time lows.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2018

The more successful moments, at least from a purely musical standpoint, were the sparsest: a solo piano performance by John Legend, and a similarly scaled delivery by Taylor Swift, before she shifted into hair-tossing bombast.

From Chicago Tribune ● Jan. 27, 2014

It’s the sparsest bed I’ve ever seen: small and pale yellow with a sheet, a topsheet, and one pillow.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini