sparse
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Sparse yet gripping, “Backrooms” and its minimalist story accommodate the audience’s own free-ranging imagination.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
Sparse snowfall and unseasonably warm winter weather in Europe’s central mountains are allowing grass to blanket hillsides across the region, causing headaches for ski slope operators and aficionados of Alpine white.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2023
Sparse sampling is not the only reason for uncertainty about thawing permafrost’s contribution to climate change.
From Scientific American • Aug. 11, 2021
Sparse polls and interviews with party strategists and voters have suggested that Ms. Wiley’s voters — especially in places like Brownstone Brooklyn — often ranked Ms. Garcia on their ballots.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2021
Sparse strands of ginger hair gripped the irate customer’s balding head like a claw.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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