skimpy
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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
I soaked some dried puffballs in water, and when they were big and moist, I fried them with wild onions and skimpy old wild carrots and stuffed myself until I felt kindly toward all men.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
But their coverage tends to be skimpier and often costlier than policies sold by travel insurers.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
Dworsky said he didn’t have evidence that the amount of chocolate in these boxes is any skimpier than in previous years.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
Starting this enrollment season, people can buy coverage that is skimpier, but often much less expensive.
From New York Times ● Dec. 6, 2018
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 meals became skimpier and skimpier, until one day after the noon meal the girls left the table feeling positively hungry.
From Billie Bradley at Three Towers Hall or, Leading a Needed Rebellion by Janet D. Wheeler
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
The tra dition of secrecy is stronger than the desire to attract mattress money; European companies commonly report only the skimpiest information about profits or forthcoming products.
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
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