sparingly
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Using your products sparingly can also save you a packet in the long term.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 7, 2026
Services may only return on Wednesday, Endre Marton Laszlo, a local MP from the ruling Tisza party, told AFP, urging people "to use water sparingly" and to resist from "stockpiling water".
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Trump is mentioned sparingly, and sometimes only in absentia.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026
In the centuries between the Mansfield ruling and that, the offence was sparingly used - maybe as few as 72 times, according to the Law Commission's research.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026
On the assumption that many general readers are as unmathematical as I am, I will use them sparingly, though they are occasionally unavoidable, not least in a chapter dealing with things on a cosmic scale.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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