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Consumer prices probably rose a scant 0.1% in July after declining in June for the first time in six years, according to a poll of economists by the Wall Street Journal.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

While her second appearance in September's Solheim Cup match against Europe now seems assured, for the 25-year-old it will come as scant consolation.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

There's scant to no clinical evidence supporting such promises, and doctors have voiced concern that endorsing weakly understood if trendy substances could direct patients away from treatments backed by evidence.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

Besides campaigning for Lindsey, Darline has a scant track record.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

With their scant budget pushed to the breaking point, the Friedmans were always in debt.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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

“You will get a scanter portion with your wife than you would have gotten if—we had heard no news.”

From The Twa Miss Dawsons by Margaret M. (Margaret Murray) Robertson

Jim rather unsteadily filled; I emulated, but to scanter measure.

From Desert Dust by J. Clinton Shepherd

So when Burns knocked, Will knit his brows,   His window gap made scanter, 50 And said, 'Go rouse the other house;   We lodge no Tam O'Shanter!'

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

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

McKim, who made his name selling bundles of children’s books, usually has only the scantest notion about what will be inside.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2022

It has rounded corners and just the scantest of frames above and on the sides of it.

From The Verge ● Sep. 11, 2017

She saw herself as an archaeologist who could reconstruct the workings of an underground metropolis based on the scantest traces on the surface.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 8, 2017

The jammed together way of living made modesty impossible, or scantest decency—made the pictures of it among the aspiring few, usually for the benefit of religion or charitable visitors, a pitiful, grotesque hypocrisy.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by David Graham Phillips

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

In its endless scanning of surfaces and appearances, slice-of-life realism scants the substance of truth and reality.

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

Sadly scanted, however, are the American artists who heeded the siren call of Orientalism.

From Time Magazine Archive

You have obedience scanted, And well are worth the want that you have wanted.

From King Lear by William Shakespeare

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

In the second offering of its premiere engagement in Los Angeles, the British National Theater performs with its usual eclat while somewhat scanting the poetic mood music of the play.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a production that is stilted, mannered and ludicrously stylized, Director John Barton appears to have rummaged through Peter Brook's wastebasket for directorial inspiration while scanting Shakespeare's genius.

From Time Magazine Archive

He also accused intellectuals of scanting current cruelties and injustices.

From Time Magazine Archive

In all but this, Not scanting labour, I will do my part.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles