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- noun The act or process of making something
sparse - noun mathematics The reduction to
zero of elements of amatrix
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Examples
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He was staring absent-mindedly at his desk, his fingers working through the part in his sparsing hair.
The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954
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Anguss and Mearnes, whome that bloody man caused murther in the ground of the Sea-toure of Sanctandross, and then caused to cast him ower the craig, sparsing a false bruyt, "That the said Johnne, seaking to flie, had broken [313] his awin craig."
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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#9 - talk about sparsing every word 100 times. id agree most foreign policy observers agree Iran has historically sought to exhibit influence in the Arab world, as they are now.
McCain’s Hamptons Fund-Raiser - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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13D: Person in a tree, briefly (sib) - saw through this "tree" very quickly, just as I can now see through the trees out my window - brilliant orange but sparsing up fast.
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