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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of scant.

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Examples

  • The EPA scanted these technical, regional issues when writing the rules, even though another "summary of interagency working comments" within the Administration explicitly told the EPA that reliability needed "more discussion."

    Inside the EPA 2011

  • They've rearranged the narrative by starting with Jane's heartsick flight from Thornfield Hall, by spending useful time on her usually scanted encounter with St. John Rivers Jamie Bell and his family, and by playing, as powerful flashbacks, her harsh childhood as an orphan as well as her time as a governess at Thornfield.

    See Jane Blossom: An Enthralling 'Eyre' Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • One could deduce that The Atlantic scanted Zionism until then because it was so thoroughly marginal a movement, even within the Jewish universe.

    Prophesying Palestine 2008

  • One could deduce that The Atlantic scanted Zionism until then because it was so thoroughly marginal a movement, even within the Jewish universe.

    Prophesying Palestine 2008

  • One could deduce that The Atlantic scanted Zionism until then because it was so thoroughly marginal a movement, even within the Jewish universe.

    Prophesying Palestine 2008

  • American training efforts have scanted the Afghan Border Police.

    Three Tactics to Save Afghanistan 2010

  • Thus, on current evidence, the Ballen and Doherty results should be scanted in favor of the later and much better grounded Chatham analysis.

    The CIA and US Media Roles in Destabilizing Iran 2009

  • And when his campaign scanted foreign policy, many people concluded that foreign policy would be unimportant to his presidency.

    Since Mckinley's Cigar 2008

  • The nuns stand outside the van watching the kid finish the last scanted word and then see him yanked skyward in the cutting wind.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • But this was the dare she had to take, a way into some essential streak of self, some possibility that felt otherwise sandy and scanted and unturned.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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