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How To Use parsimonious In A Sentence

• In this analysis, such is not the case; the Adams consensus produces a topology that is identical to one of the 24 most parsimonious trees.
• The subsequent "New Chapter" and the Future Capabilities reforms were undermined by the military's unexpectedly high operational tempo and the Treasury's parsimoniousness. Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
• I willingly grant to you that some women are so wealthy, placed in situations requiring so much representation, that it would be degrading to them to take much thought about any thing but the beauty and fashion of their clothes; and that an anxiety on their part about the preservation of, to them, trifles would indicate meanness and parsimoniousness. The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends
• A heuristic search was carried out to find the most parsimonious tree (s).
• In Chinese, the character refers to an animal of the monkey species, and has the connotation of `parsimoniousness.' Languagehat.com: CHINESE 'JEW.'
• He puts Scotland's success in the sector down to its parsimonious reputation.
• She's too parsimonious to heat the house properly.
• As you see from the little cladogram I’ve knocked up here [click for larger version], bat diphyly and archontan monophyly makes it at least possible – and phylogenetically parsimonious – that flight was primitive for the megabat-primate clade, or in other words that primates are secondarily flightless. Archive 2006-08-01
• Consensus trees should be interpreted with care as they may not be the most parsimonious hypotheses suggested by the data.
• It is parsimonious representation of a possibly complex thing.