as in sparing
to use or give out in stingy amounts
don't scant the peanut butter on those sandwiches!
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For those looking to keep their jewelry a bit more lowkey in the size department, huggie earrings present the ideal opportunity for playing with pearls and sparing your lobes from unwanted sagging.—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
13 Oct. 2025 -
Those on potassium-sparing medications or ACE inhibitors should also monitor overall intake.—
Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
9 Oct. 2025
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In their book, Holmes and her co-authors explain that planting with your site conditions in mind has many benefits, including conserving resources, like water, fertilizers, labor, financial savings, and positive environmental impacts.—
Mike Irvine,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Oct. 2025
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Iran can achieve that by abandoning water-hungry crops, shifting to smart farming, conserving every drop, and reviving flood-management techniques Iranians once mastered to recharge depleted aquifers.—
Nik Kowsar,
Time,
2 Oct. 2025
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In September 2024, it was granted a Quiet Conservation Area award by Quiet Parks International, a nonprofit dedicated to identifying and preserving the world’s least noisy corners.—
Rosecrans Baldwin,
Travel + Leisure,
11 Oct. 2025
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The events test longstanding norms separating the White House from Department of Justice (DOJ) decision-making—a boundary traditionally aimed at preserving public confidence in impartial justice.—
Deputy News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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Even before she was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in Alexander Payne’s Nebraska (2002), the 95-year-old actor had been a go-to Everygrandma, doling out enough geriatric sass to make the Golden Girls bow down yet doing so in the most polite, Midwestern way imaginable.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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Consider the absurdity of carving a single oozing arancini into three or four pieces, doling out two measly salad leaves each to a foursome, or hacking a pristine fish fillet into chum for five.—
Maggie Hennessy,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Scanting.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scanting. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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