sparsely

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My acute distress flared up after my wife and I split up and I moved out of our farmhouse in upstate New York to a sparsely furnished apartment.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

The first families from outside the islands only settled in 1969, encouraged by the government who feared losing control of the sparsely populated territory.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

In the sparsely populated Kuiper Belt, these distant bodies drift with relatively few collisions, allowing fragile structures to survive.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

Greenland is sparsely populated but its location between North America and the Arctic makes it well placed for early warning systems in the event of missile attacks.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

At his sparsely attended funeral, Felicia howls like a lonely she-wolf.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García