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But details have been scant, with a lack of formal announcements or confirmation from the Chinese foreign ministry.
From Barron's • May 15, 2026
Evidence for many of these contentions is scant or absent.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
Joao Pedro's stoppage-time overhead kick did save Chelsea the humiliation of losing six matches in a row without scoring for the first time in their history, but it was scant consolation.
From BBC • May 4, 2026
Ironically, the film devotes so much attention to the world’s reaction to Davidson’s coprolalia that there’s scant space left over to examine its actual subject beyond correcting the ways the world sees him.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026
Who becomes a social pariah and excommunicated from civil society and who trots off to college bears scant relationship to the morality of crimes committed.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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