scants

present tense third-person singular of scant
as in spares
to use or give out in stingy amounts don't scant the peanut butter on those sandwiches!

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Verb
  • Welcome to eclipse season, where the cosmos spares no one and nothing stays the same.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
  • To solve this problem, materials scientists at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have concocted a new sunscreen recipe that spares the ocean’s vital microorganisms.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 4 Sep. 2025
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  • Independent analysis by the World Wildlife Fund shows that saving one million pounds of fruit conserves 320 billion gallons of water and avoids 169,000 metric tons of carbon emissions.
    Ivanka Trump, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Researchers say the technology not only conserves water but also ensures construction materials meet strict safety standards.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
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  • This preserves development velocity while preventing the entropy that eventually strangles the innovation vibe coding enables.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Slow down and study the impacts to protect workers and preserves the investment and jobs that make opportunity possible in the first place.
    Mark Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
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“Scants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scants. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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