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noun

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Recent Examples of penny-pinching
Noun
Everton have spent around £90million ($122m) so far this summer, a considerable departure from the days of penny-pinching towards the end of former owner Farhad Moshiri’s tenure. Patrick Boyland, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025 Amid a tit-for-tat race to host Hollywood to boost their local economies, regions across the world like New York, New Jersey, the U.K. and Australia beckon to production executives increasingly turning to penny-pinching. Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2025 For experienced leaders, saving money isn’t necessarily about penny-pinching, but rather about optimizing how and where resources are spent. Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2025 While the Harry Potter star might have blown through a good chunk of his wealth, many other celebrities are penny-pinching during their career highs. Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 24 June 2025 However, there’s a fine line between cost control and penny-pinching. Ben Tercha, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for penny-pinching
Adjective
  • Both coaches and players have been respectful of the other team all week, careful not to produce any bulletin board material.
    Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Ben Lewis Doherty, playing a boy named Sam whose life is upended by Robbie, is the show’s greatest innocent, a softhearted moppet who warns deer to be careful when crossing the street.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Congress decided to make daylight saving time permanent for two years from 1973 to 1975, extending the hours of daily sunlight year-round to conserve energy during the oil embargo crisis.
    Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Daylight saving time is the time between March and November when most Americans adjust their clocks ahead by one hour.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Meanwhile, as China faces its own challenges at home, where the ruling Communist Party is grappling with a slowing economy and persistent unemployment, some observers wonder whether drumming up nationalism as a distraction strategy could push China into an even more aggressive stance.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In the capitalist American economy, markets pick winners, and the federal government typically stays out of the way of business.
    John Ruwitch, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Saying no is not about being selfish.
    Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Roup wants moms to be a little more selfish.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Being frugal isn’t something that people should be ashamed of; frugality can lead to the wildest innovations.
    Vivek Bhaskaran, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Others think the frugality signals economic skittishness.
    Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 11 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • McKim, Mead & White quickly became the place for aspiring young architects, who avidly sought jobs there despite miserly salaries.
    Henry Wiencek July 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
  • The miserly email account offerings are particularly limiting for larger ventures, and unusual for the category which typically offers unlimited email.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Goodwill, Salvation Army and local thrift stores often take donations and resell gently used shoes.
    Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • For parents looking to stretch their budgets further, Christoforous highlighted the benefits of thrift shopping for school supplies, where shoppers can often find unexpected deals.
    Doc Louallen, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Fleming and Iwamasa, as well as greedy ketamine providing doctors Salvador Plasencia and Mark Chavez have all previously entered guilty pleas in the Perry case.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Women are greedy, untrustworthy, weak and inferior, these influencers say.
    Will Carless, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025

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“Penny-pinching.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/penny-pinching. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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