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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
skimp .
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Examples
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Add six gloves pressed garlic, as well as cayenne, salt, and pepper to your liking (I think the Best Recipe skimps on cayenne).
Stefan Beck: The Murders in the Roux Morgue: Fulci's The Beyond & Creole Gumbo Stefan Beck 2010
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Add six gloves pressed garlic, as well as cayenne, salt, and pepper to your liking (I think the Best Recipe skimps on cayenne).
Stefan Beck: The Murders in the Roux Morgue: Fulci's The Beyond & Creole Gumbo Stefan Beck 2010
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Mr. Theroux is evidently appalled by the tyranny imposed on Estonia by Stalin in the wake of the 1940 annexation and, again, in nightmare reprise, upon its "liberation" from brutal Nazi occupation in 1944, even if he skimps on illustrations of the savagery involved.
Stranger In a Strange Land Andrew Stuttaford 2011
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But Szwed skimps on the kind of personal material that might have humanized his subject.
"Alan Lomax" is a biography of the great folklorist and musician by John Szwed. Post 2011
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Add six gloves pressed garlic, as well as cayenne, salt, and pepper to your liking (I think the Best Recipe skimps on cayenne).
Stefan Beck: The Murders in the Roux Morgue: Fulci's The Beyond & Creole Gumbo Stefan Beck 2010
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If America skimps on its military, China will become the regional hegemon.
Asia Needs a Larger U.S. Defense Budget Dan Blumenthal 2011
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If America skimps on its military, China will become the regional hegemon.
Asia Needs a Larger U.S. Defense Budget Dan Blumenthal 2011
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'While the book is long on Sheldon's Hollywood and television days, it skimps on his domestic and publishing lives.
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One suspects that Ms. Carter skimps on her discussion of Franz Josef because he was only distantly related to the book's "cousinhood."
Family Matters Andrew Roberts 2010
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One suspects that Ms. Carter skimps on her discussion of Franz Josef because he was only distantly related to the book's "cousinhood."
Family Matters Andrew Roberts 2010
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