skimped

past tense of skimp

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of skimped But after ownership skimped on payroll the last two years (then fire-sale’d the roster at the trade deadline), Baldelli took the fall for the poor results. Levi Weaver, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025 Sting’s lawyers have filed a response to the suit as well, claiming that the frontman has not skimped out on his old bandmates. Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for skimped
Verb
  • More than anything, even amid the silliness and absurdities of the medical emergencies, the show’s feel-good moments, which involve people being saved and others working together, depict a deep humanity.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Over the years, our technology saved thousands of babies.
    Jane Marie Chen, Time, 10 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The pandemic has spared no one, but few are completely without fault.
    Yangyang Cheng, NPR, 4 Oct. 2025
  • No part of Arizona will be spared from the shutdown.
    Ronald J. Hansen, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • The power went out intermittently, and families scrimped to get enough food.
    Maggie Doherty, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025

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“Skimped.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/skimped. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.

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