miserliness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for miserliness
Noun
  • These federal agencies regulate critical areas of the U.S. economy and society, including the stock market, product safety, fraud and corruption, the money supply, labor relations, monopolies, nuclear power, the media and elections.
    Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 4 Mar. 2025
  • For instance, Congress created a Strategic Petroleum Reserve in 1975 after the Arab oil embargo crisis caused gas shortages across the country and decimated the American economy.
    Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 4 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • As for pocketbook savings, NOAA’s $6.6 billion annual budget represents just 0.097% of the $6.75 trillion Washington spent in fiscal year 2024.
    Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 13 Mar. 2025
  • This initiative, backed by President Donald Trump and DOGE leader Elon Musk, seeks to grant taxpayers a portion of government savings.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The parsimony has so far delivered one FA Cup and an on-field blueprint as devoid of life as most others since the Ferguson era ended.
    Phil Hay, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Everything is either a complete accident or divine providence, the movie suggests.
    Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The attorney general did not respond to the Statesman's questions about the providence and nature of the evidence.
    Bayliss Wagner, Austin American-Statesman, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Miserliness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miserliness. Accessed 16 Mar. 2025.

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