stinted

past tense of stint

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Verb
  • But two months later, her lawyer filed a request to the Assembly for Heath Flora’s income to be withheld from the state for lack of payment of child support.
    Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • The Star-Telegram has also reached out to the Senate’s Disbursing Office and the Office of the Chief Administrative Officer in the House seeking information about which Tarrant County lawmakers have asked that their paychecks be withheld.
    Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • 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
Verb
  • This was essentially a cost-saving and simplification exercise and few alarm bells rang at the time, not least because BHP retained a standard listing on the LSE, allowing British investors to remain exposed to the business.
    Ian King, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • It was reported not long after Collier’s press conference that Engelbert isn’t expected to be retained as commissioner once the new collective bargaining agreement is ratified.
    Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Maeve ends up turning Sam into the police, exhausted, dejected, and utterly defeated.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • They were done at the start, exhausted and weighed down by meaning and history.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Country music artist Morgan Wallen initially denied throwing a chair off the roof of Nashville bar Chief’s in 2024, according to police video footage obtained by The Associated Press.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Combs remains behind bars, having been denied bail prior to sentencing.
    Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The franchise is coming off its first Eastern Conference finals appearance in 25 years and is one of the two frontrunners in a conference depleted by injuries to star players on rival teams.
    James L. Edwards III, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Social Security is facing questions about its long-term future, with the program’s trust funds projected to be depleted by 2034.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The 2-year-old appears to have gotten out into the backyard and opened a kennel where two Rottweilers were being kept, allowing the dogs to get out and attack him, the Valdosta Police Department said in a statement.
    Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Arsenal kept the ball for another minute and quietened the home crowd to get a better feel for the game.
    Art de Roché, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
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“Stinted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stinted. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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