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Congress has responded to the State Department’s program parsimoniously, allocating the special visas piecemeal through its annual defense policy bill.

From New York Times • Aug. 9, 2016

Some people wield them parsimoniously; others dole them out willy-nilly.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 5, 2015

Joy—in movies, in conversation, in language, in life—was not something that Roger Ebert meted out parsimoniously.

From Slate • Apr. 5, 2013

Even geosynchronous satellite communication is aimed down, parsimoniously covering only a portion of Earth’s surface.

From Scientific American • Apr. 22, 2011

She contracted her household, not parsimoniously, but into narrower dimensions; and, indeed, in one point of view, these moral aberrations might be taken for a not unfortunate accident.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno