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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.
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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
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
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The city needs to work on creating more economically balanced communities by ensuring a variety of housing types affordable to people of all income levels is provided throughout the city.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 2026
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That could be influential because of how closely tied Iran is to China economically and politically.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
6 May 2026
Adverb
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The premiums charged were not actuarially determined, similar insurance options were available more cheaply on the open insurance market, the premiums were not negotiated at arm's length, and the taxpayer's operating business was motivated to pay higher premiums so as to realize greater deductions.—
Jay Adkisson,
Forbes.com,
10 May 2026
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The Ravens annually seem to sign a veteran depth safety late in the offseason, and there are plenty of options who would probably come cheaply.—
Jeff Zrebiec,
New York Times,
7 May 2026
Adverb
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Pratt framed both Bass and Raman as representatives of a failing City Hall leadership, arguing Los Angeles had become increasingly unsafe, unaffordable and poorly managed under current leadership.—
Teresa Liu,
Daily News,
7 May 2026
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Walgreens was performing poorly financially and then-CEO Tim Wentworth decided the giant pharmacy chain needed to close many hundreds — maybe more than 1,000 — of its money-losing stores around the country.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2026
Adverb
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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
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Second, California doesn’t build anything inexpensively and efficiently.—
Steven Greenhut,
Oc Register,
24 Oct. 2025
Adverb
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All five new additions played sparingly on teams that reached the NCAA tournament last season, and all five have more upside.—
Andy Greder,
Twin Cities,
8 May 2026
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Western Michigan edge player Rodney McGraw The 6-5, 245-pounder played sparingly as a freshman at Penn State, transferred to Louisville but didn’t play and then spent the past two years at Western Michigan.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
8 May 2026
Adverb
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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
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Fraser hopes against hope that this whole debacle will increase their tip, however meagerly.—
Rafaela Bassili,
Vulture,
5 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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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 14 May. 2026.
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