scrimp
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However, I don’t want my son to think that I will take care of everything and that he doesn’t have to work hard and scrimp and save.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026
“California and 35 other states are standing up for Americans who are sick and tired of being ripped off and having to scrimp and save to enjoy a night out,” Owens said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2026
"It can be really really hard when you're having to scrimp and save and spend so much time thinking and organising and figuring out where the food is going to come from," she says.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025
I was destined to scrimp and save and worry about money for the rest of my life.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2024
This book was too important to scrimp on details.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
Down the hall, 56-year-old Janine Cox gets an occasional bag of chips from the vending machine and scrimps to add to the collection plate at church.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
Don’t let all this talk of characters give you the impression that Vikings scrimps on the action, though.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 13, 2017
If your mom scrimps on tools, you know she won't buy garden decor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2016
If I have one criticism of Passan’s book, it is that he scrimps on the history of pitchers’ arms.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2016
Na, he seldom scrimps 't to them 'at follows his biddin'.
From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by George MacDonald
My mom and dad were extremely frugal; they scrimped and saved.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2025
Perhaps they might think of their parents who weren’t able to have a “maximum level of enjoyment” while they scrimped and saved to come up with $86,926 for tuition and fees each year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025
She scrimped to buy him his first electric guitar and she encouraged him to be a musician.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
He scrimped together his first wages to buy the small squeezebox he packed when he immigrated — alone — to the United States at the age of 15.
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2022
Knowing that we ate at school, Mrs. Moss scrimped even more at home, often serving only thin sandwiches for supper.
From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter
"The UK has constantly been scrimping and saving… we are low on scanners, low on everything, way behind everybody else," he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
“We have been scrimping for a long time.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
Related: ‘I worked very hard’: I’m 71 and have $6 million after scrimping and saving.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 8, 2026
Dick Rutan achieved celebrity and was in demand on the speaker circuit but didn’t gain the fortune he had expected after scrimping for years to get Voyager aloft.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
Her "scrimping," as Gussie called it, met with no favor from anyone; and though Mrs. Sherwood talked of "ordering" this and that from the store, Dexie positively refused to be the mouthpiece of the order.
From Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces by Stanford Eveleth
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