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exiguous

scanty, meager, inadequate; diminutive

Sightings:

Careful rationing

Gives the viola players something to do
(explore for classical music sound clips)

Real poets have a lot to say

A good read at a bad fair

What to say in Shoreham-by-Sea

You can't have too much Orpheus

Uneasy alliance -- Mexico and the U.S. military
(explore for a Western Hemisphere think-tank)

Step right up, see the transiting Venus, a dime a look

The good old days at an Alabama school

Pedestrian is to Phoenix what cow is to New York
(explore for a planners' forum)

Where do "flavours" come from?
(explore for technical papers on essential oils)

Eschew Millennial Madness -- join the Naval Observatory and the rest of the cognoscenti

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