thrifty
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The Spanish island wants to shed its reputation as a hot spot for British bachelor parties and thrifty package holidayers and transform into a luxury destination for high-rolling tourists like Americans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
She was a thrifty person who rarely spent money on herself.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026
The executive chef has to be thrifty to make it all work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
In keeping with this thrifty living, most of his exercise is done using free outdoor gyms, with his online followers holding him to account for that, too.
From BBC ● May 17, 2026
No thrifty child had tucked a wad of gum under the table.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
While affluent Americans are getting thriftier on essentials, they are still spending on extras like wellness and travel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 18, 2026
But new survey data show that baby boomers — America’s richest generation and one often perceived as being thriftier those that followed — are more wasteful in certain spending categories than younger people.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 27, 2026
Maquiladoras brought jobs to Mexico and thriftier price points for cost-conscious consumers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2025
Sun Lee, who owns a women's clothing boutique Aria in Toronto, noticed fewer and thriftier customers entering the store since the pandemic.
From Reuters ● Mar. 22, 2023
A part of my comrades I had now got well equipped; by degrees, the rest were likewise furbished up, though on a thriftier plan; and so a very seemly corps at length was mustered.
From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
United already was one of the thriftiest spenders in MLS, and the latest belt-tightening left Olsen squeezing all he could out of a depleted roster.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2020
That is the thriftiest part of this arrangement: Her admission stay for several days in the hospital will be billed at about $10,000.
From New York Times ● Dec. 16, 2019
Goleta's customers are among the thriftiest with 55 gallons a day, compared the state average of 70 gallons, McInnes said.
From US News ● Aug. 19, 2016
Overnight I became the thriftiest person you’ve ever met—bar those people who split their toilet paper in half.
From Forbes ● Sep. 10, 2014
She was the prettiest maiden in the village, as well as the most good-natured and the thriftiest; though she had a keen tongue of her own when occasion demanded.
From Yellow-Cap and Other Fairy-Stories For Children by Julian Hawthorne
Vocabulary lists containing thrifty
"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
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