spartan
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They often live in spartan conditions and earn meager wages.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
Ibrahimi, whose four children huddled around the stove in her spartan living room, is one of 10 single mothers living in the new community.
From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026
Better is Danny Elfman’s spartan and fraught score, particularly the dyspeptic drums.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 8, 2026
It’s not a 2005 LG flip phone, but it’s more spartan than what most of us use today.
From Slate • Sep. 5, 2025
During his senior year at Emory, Chris lived off campus in his bare, spartan room furnished with milk crates and a mattress on the floor.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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