scanted

past tense of scant
as in spared
to use or give out in stingy amounts don't scant the peanut butter on those sandwiches!

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Verb
  • Thank God we’ve been spared from the timeline where Annie and Nick get married and post unconvincingly cheery Christian couple content for the rest of their lives.
    Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Staffers spent the weekend trading calls and texts, trying to piece together who had been axed, who had been spared, and, most puzzling, why.
    Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2025
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  • But the city approved a project that preserved the hotel as the centerpiece.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Deli meats are often preserved with nitrates and nitrites, which can convert into carcinogenic compounds inside the body.
    Dr. Sanjay Bhojraj, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
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  • But it had nonetheless been conserved and cared for, which allowed new meanings to slowly emerge.
    Mollie Barnes, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Because energy is conserved, and gravitational radiation (also known as a gravitational wave) carries energy, this leads to the decay of the mutual orbits of these masses.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 17 Sep. 2025
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“Scanted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scanted. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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