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And she had made homelessness her marquee issue with scant progress to show despite throwing billions at the problem.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026

While he has expressed a desire to lower costs, Becerra has released scant details about how he would do it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

ETF investors, Panigirtzoglou points out, bought into the first South Korean selloff using levered and unlevered funds, but so far in October’s Korea selloff 2.0, evidence of this buying is scant.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 2026

Even after NBC relented, it ordered only a scant four episodes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Between her limited budget and the scant selection of foods available at the company store, it was hard to put a decent meal on the table every night.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

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

From Desert Dust by J. Clinton Shepherd

There was scant chance that the call would be carried to her by the boisterous wind, scanter chance still that, hearing it now in that mad rout, she would heed.

From On the Firing Line by Hamilton Brock Fuller

All the time as we went Bridget talked incessantly, although she became scanter and scanter of breath.

From The Story of Bawn by Katharine Tynan

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

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

For of all the muted mysteries spinning ceaselessly within the silent-functioning cells of twin brain-hemispheres, Science affords us but the scantest and most sketchy information.

From Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

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

The film somewhat scants Kaufman's only widely popular success, as Latka, the "foreign man" of Taxi.

From Time Magazine Archive

In this book dedicated to a Pope he scants nothing of his hatred of the Holy See.

From Machiavelli, Volume I by Edward Dacres

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

Those seriously interested in the actual goings-on will be scanted unless they can find the full thing on cable.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the 19th day of September in the morning, coming to Tercera, and intending to edge into the road, a tempest arose and so scanted the wind that we could not get in.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr

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

Brecht made the astronomer into an opportunist and, scanting history, into a sensualist.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles