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sparsely

[spahrs-lee] / ˈspɑrs li /




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"It was very sort of sparsely written, but just had these beautiful little clues throughout that suggested to us what the tone of the film could become," they explained.

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

So much so, in fact, that on the Wednesday night that we visited for a sold-out event, the sparsely populated lounge area was nearly silent.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

Flash floods are common in Northern Arizona because the arid, sparsely vegetated environments there have little capacity to absorb rain, the park's website said, urging visitors to be especially cautious from July to mid-September.

From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026

Hilton leads in the state’s more sparsely populated and conservative-leaning areas, including the Central Valley and North Coast/Sierra region.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Those postulated rates of spread and of population increase are very low compared with actual known rates for peoples occupying previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited lands.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond


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