sparingly
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Sparingly used Anthony Gill scored a career-high 15 points as seven players scored in double figures for the Wizards.
From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2022
Sparingly deployed digital screens include a useful animation that shows how Tut’s four canopic jars — storage vessels for his liver, stomach, lungs and intestines — were elaborately packed inside a ceremonial chest.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2018
O. mìnor, L. A span to a foot high, pubescent, pale yellowish-brown, or with purplish-tinged flowers in a rather loose spike; corolla 6´´ long.—Parasitic on clover, N. J. to Va. Sparingly and probably recently introduced.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
Sparingly he doled out his few treasures—the gaudy blankets; coils of brass, copper, and iron wires; beads; snuff; knives, and the like.
From The Leopard Woman by White, Stewart Edward
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