Example Sentences
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Nietzsche said God is dead, but skimped on details of how we’d deal with the corpse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
Companies have skimped on dividends amid an epic bull run for stock prices, leaving the S&P 500’s yield of just 1.1% looking like finance’s vestigial tailbone—an evolutionary holdover without a clear purpose.
From Barron's • Nov. 21, 2025
Citroen's Koskas said the carmaker had no desire to make the new C3 a "technological Christmas tree" but had not skimped on what mattered.
From Reuters • Oct. 17, 2023
But the 26-year-old social worker of Portland, Oregon, hasn’t skimped on her eye makeup — the mascara, eyeliner and eyeshadow she typically wears to work just above her face mask.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2022
I had no time to tell him that his friend Rasseem had not skimped either.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
