bare-bones

Over seven decades, the American discount chain built a 21,000-store juggernaut on a simple formula: Go where Walmart won’t, keep stores bare-bones and sell cheap staples to people stretching their paychecks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Myhan had a bare-bones profile until he was laid off from a customer-success role in December.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Launched in 1992, the company is responsible for the "Spirit Effect" in which bare-bones service opens up travel to a broader slate of customers otherwise priced out of the market.

From Barron's ● May 9, 2026

Realism is achieved not through bare-bones scenic furniture but through the combustible relationships of characters who exist with one another in a purgatory of disillusionment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026

The door was surrounded by things like cabling, hooks and the plates that linked the bare-bones machinery of the door hydraulics with the more aesthetic wall coverings of the large cargo room.

From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner

Its bare bones prose and electrifying pictures preserve, honor and celebrate the people, places and ideas responsible for Rosales’ sentimental education.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

Focaccia has become de facto sandwich bread or makeshift pizza crust elsewhere in Italy, but it tends to be bare bones in Genoa, where it has been made since the Middle Ages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Architect Dr Rachel O'Grady, who specialises in urban strategy, told BBC News NI "the bare bones of a really excellent city is there".

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

While Avast Secureline VPN provides the basics, its offering is pretty bare bones compared to other VPN services out there.

From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2026

I get the bare bones of this from my parents over the beef stew.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood