frugally

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Recent Examples of frugally The family lived frugally, Ferguson said, since Good’s partner sold a company and didn’t work as Good attended graduate school online. Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2026 Perdue has lived a double life—having access to immense privilege and money from two business empires, while holding down a regular job and living frugally. Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025 My parents had a lot of conversations with my siblings and me about saving money, living frugally, investing, and planning for retirement. R29 Team, Refinery29, 15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for frugally
Adverb
  • In a market where compute deployment speed directly affects competitiveness, compressing infrastructure timelines becomes economically strategic.
    Andrea Sguazzi, Forbes.com, 25 June 2026
  • The oil industry, even in a country as economically battered as Iran, handled the problem just fine then.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
Adverb
  • Can accounts be created cheaply to exploit it?
    Atul Sabharwal, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • The facility covers about 1,000 acres (405 hectares) and is the main site for Castelion’s push to make hypersonic weapons more cheaply and in bigger numbers than traditional methods.
    Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 18 June 2026
Adverb
  • Secondly, they were very poorly promoted.
    Samuel O’Neal June 25, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 June 2026
  • Another reason some people respond poorly to GLP-1 drugs is because of their genetic makeup.
    Nadine Wehida, Scientific American, 25 June 2026
Adverb
  • To this new arena of few big, let alone original, hits; to a place where expensive corporatized storytelling could hold no candle to the quick-turn, inexpensively made short videos young people watched or the quick-turn, inexpensively made long podcasts older people listened to.
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Second, California doesn’t build anything inexpensively and efficiently.
    Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Spices Many spices in the spice rack tend to be used infrequently and sparingly.
    Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 27 June 2026
  • Used sparingly, this silky loose formula sets concealer without emphasizing fine lines, helping the skin look smoother and more even as makeup wears.
    Brigitt Earley, Glamour, 25 June 2026
Adverb
  • Limón would like to see the state stop subsidizing corporations who pay so meagerly that their employees qualify for Medi-Cal.
    Anita Chabria, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
  • When opportunities arise, whether lowly paid or not, we’re often left with no other choice than to take the role that pays meagerly.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 1 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • That’s frustrating considering the format has always been thriftily priced.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 14 Aug. 2025

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“Frugally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frugally. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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