sparsely

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These differences made sense given that the environment they live in has much smaller, more sparsely distributed prey than other leopard habitats.

From Science Daily • Jun. 24, 2026

Highland Council said its region, which has large, sparsely populated areas, offered stargazers some of the darkest skies in Europe.

From BBC • May 28, 2026

That applies everywhere in California, save for three sparsely populated, rural counties — Alpine, Plumas and Sierra — which conduct their elections entirely by mail.

From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026

It is a sparsely orchestrated and fluidly sung collection that connects cowboy narratives, old and new, with finesse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

Those postulated rates of spread and of population increase are very low compared with actual known rates for peoples occupying previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited lands.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond