scant
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Scant days after taking up hairdressing in a southeast London salon, she finds herself face-to-face with 57-year-old Peggy Jones.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2024
Scant details about the incident were available Friday night, as authorities with the National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration had just begun to review the damaged aircraft.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2024
Scant fossil evidence had made the animal hard to classify, but new analysis suggests that its teeth are mammalian rather than reptilian.
From Scientific American • Dec. 18, 2022
Scant communication has been established since then, enabled through a few satellite phones mainly held by foreign embassies in the capital city Nuku'alofa.
From BBC • Jan. 18, 2022
Scant use had they for pleaders, They boasted of their war, The pitiless bright-eyed leaders, And their battle-god was Thor.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 30, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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