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Example sentences for: scrimping

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Congress is terrified of scrimping on it.
They can either rely on outmoded studies to argue with conservative politicians, who, for the moment, have the more authoritative pretext for scrimping on day-care cost and quality.
A Washington Post piece bathed her in golden light: She hopes to go to graduate school in sociology, she's scrimping because she doesn't want to burden her parents financially, she is so much a hostage to the media that she couldn't attend her own mom's wedding, and--the icing on the cake--she has taken up knitting.