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Recent Examples of frugality At the same time, young folks’ frugality is being driven by more than pocketbook concerns, Lawrence said. Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024 Franklin’s virtues are: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility. Michael Maguire, Boston Herald, 19 Aug. 2024 This required immense discipline, frugality, and a laser focus on delivering value to early adopters. Geri Stengel, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024 During the campaign, Eisenhower promised only modest changes to Truman’s foreign policies, both on Korea and on containment more generally, pledging merely to bring more competence and frugality to their implementation. Steven Casey, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2015 See all Example Sentences for frugality 
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Noun
  • Each of the airline’s economy tickets now also include both a personal item and a 22-pound carry-on bag.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2025
  • The fact that frantic diplomatic officials and business leaders managed to convince Petro to turn back from the abyss highlights the degree to which the Colombian economy is dependent on exports to the United States.
    Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • These new options may allow you to fine-tune your retirement savings to better align with your investor profile.
    Aaron Cirksena, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2025
  • The site’s deal hub is filled with savings across categories, but these are the five best Amazon deals of the day.
    Isabel Garcia, People.com, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Lately, the 80-year-old gallerist has set her sights on Isola, a neighborhood just north of the city center that has attracted design workshops, thrift stores, and art studios.
    Denny Lee, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Wednesday night at Bob’s, there were evacuees from the Hughes fire in Castaic hoping for the best next to a group of young women in thrift store fur and boots, plus a family in sweats beside two guys in black leather jackets.
    Laurie Ochoa, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • And even if the existing global public health architecture survives this time of parsimony and austerity, it will have been remodeled along the way.
    Laurie Garrett, Foreign Affairs, 6 Mar. 2012
  • But the Senate’s parsimony on these issues was praised by the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, a think tank that advocates for racial and economic justice.
    Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023

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