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If their next pay raise feels skimpy, workers may want to look at their healthcare benefits before shooting a dirty look at their boss.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

Supino noted that Comcast didn’t take questions on its call earlier Monday and released a skimpy presentation on the split.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

He arrived without a driver’s license, according to Christopher Simon Sykes’s biography of the artist, and barely passed the test after a skimpy tutorial on a friend’s pickup truck.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

It’s a double-whammy: no private money, yet skimpy public funds.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2024

But our mother looks out the window and sees us, and the snow, and makes us come inside and dry our feet off with the skimpy towels.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

But their coverage tends to be skimpier and often costlier than policies sold by travel insurers.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

By then, the computer runs kept showing that the only way to set taxes at rates as low as they were striving for was to provide skimpier coverage than most insured Vermonters already had.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2019

Aimee Cohen, a career coach based in Denver, said relocation packages have gotten skimpier and even executives wonder how long a gig will last.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2018

The skimpier plans would cover less and presumably cost less, and insurers said they would also attract healthier people.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2017

De underskirts was unbleached white cloth made jus' lak de dresses only some skimpier.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration

To say he has honored her story, though that’s true, is the skimpiest possible way to look at the achievement of “Dana H.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2021

This is but the skimpiest sliver of the plot of “A Great Reckoning.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2016

Economics, business, society and culture get only the skimpiest treatment.

From Economist ● Feb. 18, 2016

Red bandits had cut off Olympia until the day before the ceremonies, so that only the skimpiest rehearsals were possible.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lois the housemaid, was the smallest and skimpiest and most angular girl I ever beheld.

From Station Amusements in New Zealand by Lady (Mary Anne) Barker