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[stint] / stɪnt /




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Her last Broadway stint was in 2017 in the original role of Helene Berman in the Joshua Harmon play “Significant Other.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

House, along with a stint on the state’s executive council, before he went for a bigger office.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026

Plus, after Katie Zacharia’s calamitous five-day stint in that job, it’s hard to imagine Minaj doing worse.

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026

After a stint in the U.S. working on Wall Street, he returned to Russia and got to know the petrochemicals industry from his perch at Deutsche Bank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

My stint at the university had left me feeling worn out, putting me in a far-from-perfect juggle while also straining our finances with the expense of child care.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

He often retreated to Mexico, where costs are low, between stints.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

Bushby says he has only spent about 15 of the 28 years walking, often retreating to Mexico, where costs are low, between stints.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

Though he began acting as a teenager with stints on “The Walking Dead” and “Euphoria” and continues to get cast as characters younger than he is, he’s never had that overly polished child-performer charm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

She had stints on Bill Clinton’s presidential bids, and Hillary Clinton’s senatorial operation.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

During summers home from Institute, the Coleman boys pulled stints as bellmen, and Katherine and her sister took jobs as personal maids to individual guests.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Five or six spring-times, welcomed joyously, lovingly watched from the first celandine to the budding of the rose; who shall dare to call it a stinted boon?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

The administration also hasn’t stinted on disaster aid.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2023

Michael and Christian Blackwood began to work independently in the 1980s, but neither stinted on curiosity.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2022

Or at least approaches its end, as we did on Saturday, four days before the fall equinox, on a day that may have stinted on true summer heat but supplied generous helpings of humidity.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 18, 2021

But Belisarius was ill-supplied with men; he had fallen into disfavour at Court, and the imperial ministers stinted him of troops and money.

From The Byzantine Empire by Charles William Chadwick Oman

Without stinting on Singapore expansion plans, Sands could buy back 20% to 30% of its current market capitalization, says Goldman.

From Barron's ● Dec. 23, 2025

The minor duds — the flea-beetled eggplants, the stinting watermelons — were overshadowed by all the successes, including a surfeit of choice varieties of tomatoes, greens, beans, squashes and okra, to name a few.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2020

They’ve done that without stinting on the wonder-inducing spectacle that was the Baroque’s reason for being.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2019

We remain convinced, in contradiction of all the available evidence, that stinting on sleep makes us heroic and industrious, rather than stupid and fat.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 3, 2018

I narrated its events, not stinting Pro Bono’s actions therein.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson


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