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As Steven Vogel, the late biomechanics researcher at Duke University, once wrote, such robots are more in line with the natural world, where stiff materials are doled out “with a stingy hand.”
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In fact, the Dolphins defense has been stingier on points allowed this year than every other team but the Pittsburgh Steelers.
THE DOLPHINS ARE MAKING A NAME FOR THEMSELVES WITH THEIR NO-NAME DEFENSETY SCHALTERDECEMBER 17, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
If the people who receive empathy and compassion are left better off, and if the people who dispense it are also left better off, I can’t see any reason to be stingy with it.
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At a conference last week, Jack Ma, Alibaba’s founder and Asia’s richest man, spoke out against the incumbent banking system, comparing its institutions to stingy pawnshops.
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For her part, Pelosi criticized the GOP’s proposals as too stingy, contending that the administration is focused on protecting tax breaks for the wealthy instead of help for families and children in need.
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But no matter—the thief was clear off; and the only comfort he got from his neighbors, was being rated for his stinginess.
HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE, VOLUME 1, NO. 4, SEPTEMBER, 1850VARIOUS
The amazing virility of his shoulders contrasted with the stinginess of his smile.
RAINY WEEKELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTT
Frugality and industry are virtues everywhere, but avarice and stinginess are not frugality.
FAMILIAR LETTERS OF JOHN ADAMS AND HIS WIFE ABIGAIL ADAMS DURING THE REVOLUTIONJOHN ADAMS
Such generosity speaks of a parsimonious temper and habit more forcibly than positive acts of stinginess would.
A BOOK ABOUT DOCTORSJOHN CORDY JEAFFRESON
Perhaps it is the devil perched on your croup, and your own stinginess!
AFTER THE DIVORCEGRAZIA DELEDDA

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