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Perhaps the most important, though scantly reported, manifestation of this has been the emergence of a new group of retired officers called Flag Officers 4 America — "flag officers" meaning generals and admirals.

From Salon • Jun. 29, 2021

“In choosing a serial murder case that was scantly covered at the time, Green takes us far from the terrain of fashionably notorious Netflix psychopaths.”

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2021

Cameron Folmar carries the 80-minute show on a scantly decorated stage; if “Santaland” is meant as theater’s break at the comedy club, it’s a thin start.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2017

If it did collapse, China would face a humanitarian crisis in its scantly populated northeast territories, as millions of North Koreans would stream across the border.

From Slate • Sep. 12, 2017

His earlier irritability was forgotten save when it obtruded itself reproachfully to remind him that he had been scantly civil to the girl by his side.

From The Education of Eric Lane by McKenna, Stephen