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
Sparingly applied cold, it stains white woods the colour of satin wood.
From Intarsia and Marquetry by Jackson, F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton)
Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
Sparingly hirsute-pubescent or glabrate; leaves ovate-oblong, usually short-petioled, larger; tube of corolla little exceeding the hardly hirsute calyx.—Va. and Ky. to Ala. Appearing like a hybrid with the next.
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
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