stinted (on)

past tense of stint (on)
as in skimped (on)
to use or give out in stingy amounts the entrées would be worth these prices if the restaurant didn't stint on the side dishes so much

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Verb
  • Older kids and young adults would not be spared.
    Jamie Ducharme, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
  • My own family hasn’t been spared in any of this.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Emory’s shuttles have been running on biodiesel fuel since 2006, and the campus has conserved fuel energy by recycling old cooking oil used in the dining halls.
    Gina Park, CNN Money, 27 Aug. 2025
  • These are sugar molecules that are structurally conserved across unrelated viral families and have until now remained an untapped target for antiviral drug development.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Before releasing her new album Man’s Best Friend, Sabrina Carpenter only doled out one promotional single.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • And there were plenty of smaller prizes doled out too, 124 tickets that won $50,000 prizes and 25 tickets won $150,000 prizes.
    Joyce Orlando, Nashville Tennessean, 1 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The lobby has been carefully preserved to maintain its historical integrity with restoration efforts focusing on keeping the original look including the ceiling and tiles, which have been restored to their original form.
    Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • More to Explore By documenting lushly hirsute Japanese officials alongside their beardless counterparts, portraiture preserved a photographic record of colonial subjects’ visibly inferior status.
    H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 13 Sep. 2025
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“Stinted (on).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stinted%20%28on%29. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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