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Recent Examples of frugally
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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Pj Green,
Kansas City Star,
8 Jan. 2026
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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Preston Fore,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2025
My parents had a lot of conversations with my siblings and me about saving money, living frugally, investing, and planning for retirement.
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R29 Team,
Refinery29,
15 Sep. 2025
Pj Green,
Kansas City Star,
8 Jan. 2026
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.
—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2025
My parents had a lot of conversations with my siblings and me about saving money, living frugally, investing, and planning for retirement.
—
R29 Team,
Refinery29,
15 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for frugally
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In a market where compute deployment speed directly affects competitiveness, compressing infrastructure timelines becomes economically strategic.
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The oil industry, even in a country as economically battered as Iran, handled the problem just fine then.
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Local fraud and credit patterns tied to one market hold up too, because a foreign model cannot cheaply acquire them.
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The facility covers about 1,000 acres (405 hectares) and is the main site for Castelion’s push to make hypersonic weapons more cheaply and in bigger numbers than traditional methods.
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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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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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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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That’s frustrating considering the format has always been thriftily priced.
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“Frugally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frugally. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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