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If their next pay raise feels skimpy, workers may want to look at their healthcare benefits before shooting a dirty look at their boss.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 1, 2026

Supino noted that Comcast didn’t take questions on its call earlier Monday and released a skimpy presentation on the split.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

The bath towel was skimpy but the counters for drying your hair and getting ready were a nice touch.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

I couldn’t help but tell her everything — there was much to say as we walked past men in skimpy swim trunks and children darting in and out of the waves.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2023

Granny always wore her skimpy gray hair pulled straight back behind her ears and fastened in a ball.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

But their coverage tends to be skimpier and often costlier than policies sold by travel insurers.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026

Aimee Cohen, a career coach based in Denver, said relocation packages have gotten skimpier and even executives wonder how long a gig will last.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2018

The report anticipates a smaller effect from the administration’s proposals to make it easier for consumers to buy two kinds of health plans with lower prices and skimpier benefits than the ACA allows.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2018

The skimpier plans would cover less and presumably cost less, and insurers said they would also attract healthier people.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2017

Then one day I met him on the street; he was on his way to buy an overcoat, and he was lookin' skimpier and more froze-up and genialer than ever.

From In the Arena Stories of Political Life by Tarkington, Booth

To say he has honored her story, though that’s true, is the skimpiest possible way to look at the achievement of “Dana H.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2021

This is but the skimpiest sliver of the plot of “A Great Reckoning.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2016

Economics, business, society and culture get only the skimpiest treatment.

From Economist ● Feb. 18, 2016

Red bandits had cut off Olympia until the day before the ceremonies, so that only the skimpiest rehearsals were possible.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lois the housemaid, was the smallest and skimpiest and most angular girl I ever beheld.

From Station Amusements in New Zealand by Barker, Lady (Mary Anne)