as in frugally
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for thriftily
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The family lived frugally, Ferguson said, since Good’s partner sold a company and didn’t work as Good attended graduate school online.
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Perdue has lived a double life—having access to immense privilege and money from two business empires, while holding down a regular job and living frugally.
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Today, researchers can access almost every bit of knowledge about a specialized topic, instantly; work globally with hundreds of scientists; sequence genomes cheaply; and run models on powerful supercomputers.
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What Hempstead’s residents won that night was the right to build cheaply and fast.
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While secondary payloads can fly with many launch providers, none offer transportation as frequently or inexpensively as SpaceX rideshare.
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To this new arena of few big, let alone original, hits; to a place where expensive corporatized storytelling could hold no candle to the quick-turn, inexpensively made short videos young people watched or the quick-turn, inexpensively made long podcasts older people listened to.
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Man oppressed woman legally, economically, socially, educationally, morally, professionally and religiously.
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That was not enough for investors worried about free cash flow and Meta’s reliance on a narrow, economically sensitive revenue stream.
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Building collapses are common in Pakistan, where construction standards are often poorly enforced.
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After all, even with the growing demands of an aging population and increases in intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs), larger numbers of these jobs are already poorly paid.
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The pros who develop these products tend to use them sparingly.
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In an efficient, effective work culture, meetings are used sparingly and with intention.
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Limón would like to see the state stop subsidizing corporations who pay so meagerly that their employees qualify for Medi-Cal.
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When opportunities arise, whether lowly paid or not, we’re often left with no other choice than to take the role that pays meagerly.
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“Thriftily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thriftily. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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