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Or at least approaches its end, as we did on Saturday, four days before the fall equinox, on a day that may have stinted on true summer heat but supplied generous helpings of humidity.

From Washington Post • Sep. 18, 2021

If Alexander had lived he would have made an alliance with Austria and have stinted the army.

From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by Durham, M. E. (Mary Edith)

I have made a great many dresses evenings, and have stinted myself to finish this to-day.

From Mind Amongst the Spindles by Various

We may be sure that Shakespeare, then at the zenith of his power, would not have stinted the measure of a work which seems to have taken more of his time than any previous play.

From William Shakespeare His Homes and Haunts by Forestier, A. (Amédée)

I have stinted myself to get through, mopping and all, by ten, and it is now nine by Peterkin's bell.

From Tracy Park by Holmes, Mary Jane