stent vs stint
Definitions
noun
- a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis
Examples
Of all types of commercially based American music, jazz is the one that has most consistently fostered musical artistry on a high level.
Some groups consistently face discrimination: age is one mode of socially structured disadvantage.
The study predicted that, by 2022, the country would still require $7.2 billion in foreign aid a year—and that assumes an upsurge of so-far inexistent mining-industry revenue and no dramatic deterioration of security.
Definitions
noun
- an individual's prescribed share of work
- smallest American sandpiper
- an unbroken period of time during which you do something
verb
- supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
- subsist on a meager allowance
Examples
She recently wrapped up a prestigious year-long stint clerking for Judge Leonie M. Brinkema at the federal court in Alexandria -- but, no, said she couldn't discuss any of the cases she worked on.
First, federal education spending under him is up nearly 50 percent over the final year of the past presidency, so the coalition's charge that the president is stinting the schools is just bunk.
Perhaps her most productive period was her five-year stint as a foreign correspondent in New York.
