meager

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In Africa, South Asia and the Middle East, the IMF warned that a number of countries were already struggling with meager foreign reserves and "limited market access," making them vulnerable to "dangerous" debt shocks.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

The family scraped by with meager income his mother obtained from such jobs as waitress and laundry worker.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Some people wanted to see Simpson punished, while others viewed his acquittal as vindication, however meager, for decades’ worth of societal abuse.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026

ADP said businesses created a meager 22,000 new jobs in January, suggesting little improvement in a fragile labor market in which work has become much harder to find.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 4, 2026

She rests uneasily in the silence, watching ants boil darkly over the crumbs of what seemed, to begin with, an impossibly meager lunch.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver