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His summit with Xi had scant substance but made both leaders look larger than life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Tens of thousands of people walk in and out of Dodger Stadium on any given night, paying scant attention to the trees, plants, and other foliage surrounding it on all sides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
There was "scant evidence" of the understanding and documentation of the risks of taking the drug, the review team found.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
That’s because the latest inflation reading for July, which saw the consumer price index rise a scant 0.1% for the month, matched Wall Street’s forecast and curbed some inflation anxiety on Wall Street.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
The moonlight showed a scant trail branching away from the road.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
With new Simpson revelations ever scanter, the connected tale of his longtime friend A.C.
From Time Magazine Archive
On scant notice and even scanter knowledge, the TV executive must decide whether the threat is news to be covered, or a cruel, senseless display that the cameras will only encourage.
From Time Magazine Archive
A scant unceremonious "Hallo!" when we meet; a scanter "Night" or "Morning," according to the circumstances, when we part.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 14, 1914 by Various
The farther north they travelled the scanter became the growth of pine and poplar and willow.
From Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
Jim rather unsteadily filled; I emulated, but to scanter measure.
From Desert Dust by J. Clinton Shepherd
I acknowledge I am a sample group of one, with only the scantest evidence to work with.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
If all you have is a faint recollection that a distant relative once bought you a bond, NS&I can find out for sure with the scantest of information, says Ms Waters.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2022
The marker is engraved with the scantest details of Lyles’s life: “Born May 8, 1898. Killed on Smoot’s Dredging Machine Sept. 1, 1917.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2020
It has rounded corners and just the scantest of frames above and on the sides of it.
From The Verge ● Sep. 11, 2017
He said, in his Cosmic Philosophy: “The process of evolution is itself the working out of a mighty Teleology of which our finite understandings can fathom but the scantest rudiments.”
From The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 by Various
As the National Association of Scholars will soon publish in a comprehensive piece by S. Stanley Young and Warren Kindzierski, the Reference Manual pervasively scants the effects of modern science’s irreproducibility crisis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 24, 2026
While “Kissinger” scants the tapes, it leans precariously on one source.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
In her impressionistic portrait, Brown moves some events in time, combines others and scants certain family members — entirely omitting, for example, William’s son, John, a famous scientist in his own right.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2016
This bald summary scants Commoner's enviable skill at explaining complicated technical issues in lucid and lively terms.
From Time Magazine Archive
But when the grudging spinner scants Her thread and fate no surcease grants From grief most deep and need most wearing, Less calm our bearing.
From Laments by Dorothea Prall
Hospitals and heroic interventions got the large investments; incrementalists were scanted.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 15, 2017
The implications of the technology, on the other hand, are somewhat scanted.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2016
Earlier biographies — the best is Lyndall Gordon’s — have somewhat scanted Eliot’s American childhood and youth, which is one reason why this new book is so valuable.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2015
The dissonances of Wagner's life are scanted, but the sonic sensuousness of his work is served boldly, briefly and well.
From Time Magazine Archive
Is love a scanted portion, That we should hoard thereof?
From The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
But focusing too intently on the play’s stimulating politics risks scanting its humor and its family dynamics.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2017
Volumes as heavily freighted with plates, maps and other cargo as this one have a way of scanting facts for four-color fanfares.
From Time Magazine Archive
He also accused intellectuals of scanting current cruelties and injustices.
From Time Magazine Archive
Brecht made the astronomer into an opportunist and, scanting history, into a sensualist.
From Time Magazine Archive
So it was necessary to go down at once and waste whole minutes of the precious scanting light.
From Sea Warfare by Rudyard Kipling
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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