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thrifty

[thrif-tee] / ˈθrɪf ti /


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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

Even as vacationers become more thrifty, inflation is still contributing to bigger trip budgets this year.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 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

The bean plants stood erect in thrifty order, casting as they stood little fringes of clear shadow in the sunshine.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck

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

Starting last year, rising interest rates and inflation made advertisers thriftier, undermining the sales and profit of Google and its peers Snap and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

Years ago it began by being the sluggish suburb of a thriftier and smarter suburb, Brooklyn.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

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

The typical savings rate of the thriftiest cohort — aged 65 to 69 — topped out at 7.5 percent in 2005.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2015

San Francisco Bay Area water users — some with no lawns —were among the thriftiest, using around 70 gallons of water per person per day.

From US News ● Apr. 2, 2015

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

We are the sharpest and thriftiest people alive in private affairs, and in public matters the most absolute fly-gobblers in the whole world!'

From France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by William Henry Hurlbert




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