parsimony
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Parsimony alone would suggest that Wilson is the anomaly here, unless of course he has discovered some important new information.
From Washington Post • Dec. 28, 2017
Parsimony and model-based analyses of indels in avian nuclear genes reveal congruent and incongruent phylogenetic signals.
From Scientific American • Jan. 27, 2014
Parsimony as well: Bush's request of $14.6 billion for fiscal 1990, which began Oct.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Welfare of his Troops and Glory of his Arms were to depend on Generals of the Minister's Appointment, whose Weakness and sordid Parsimony, occasioned several very ignominious Miscarriages to the Kofirans.
From The Amours of Zeokinizul, King of the Kofirans Translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol by Crébillon, Claude Prosper Jolyot de
Parsimony was his besetting sin, and he carried this to the extent of feeding his crew in a way that brought him into frequent conflict with them.
From The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century by Runciman, Walter
Vocabulary lists containing parsimony
"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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"The Gift of the Magi"
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