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Perversely, limited supply is sometimes the obstacle to faster distribution, health officials say, because there is reluctance to set up vaccination sites and mobilize beleaguered medical workers only to perform a meager number of inoculations.
‘PIXIE DUST’: WHY SOME VACCINE SITS ON SHELVES WHILE SHORTAGES INTENSIFY NATIONWIDEISAAC STANLEY-BECKER, LENA H. SUNJANUARY 22, 2021WASHINGTON POST
This report, however, was very meager and lacking in any profusion of mechanical detail.
THE WONDER BOOK OF KNOWLEDGEVARIOUS
I have no memory of either parent and my information concerning them is meager and second hand.
DAVID LANNARCK, MIDGETGEORGE S. HARNEY
The surname Thin has the same meaning as Meagre, from which the common name Meager comes.
STORIES THAT WORDS TELL USELIZABETH O'NEILL
Old Lewson, the man who sat under the apple tree, gave his meager property to his children.
A YANKEE FROM THE WESTOPIE READ
A human lamprey, sticking himself always at the thin and meager board of the poor, a vile parasite, but holy!
THE ADVENTURES OF KATHLYNHAROLD MACGRATH
She stooped, and grasped the babe in her hands with a passion that tore the meager clothing from its body.
TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRYGRACE MILLER WHITE
Meager indeed is our knowledge of this only British bard whose works have endured through thirty centuries.
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF AMBROSE BIERCEAMBROSE BIERCE
The storm had loosened the meager hair, had flung it in disorder over the fisher-girl's shoulders.
TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRYGRACE MILLER WHITE
Munching their horse-meat, clutching their meager garments, they elbowed about the fires saying little.
THE WAY OF AN INDIANFREDERIC REMINGTON

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