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The Trump administration has been oddly parsimonious about providing one of its patented pithy catchphrases for what we’re being liberated from.

He ran the theater with love and a parsimonious budget, meaning that the ticket salesperson sometimes also ran the snack stand and tended the projector.

But considered as a hypothesis or a thought experiment, it’s a parsimonious explanation of why Assad’s government collapsed so quickly and when it happened, barely a month before Trump takes office.

The Chicago Tribune is owned by Alden Global Capital, an investment firm seen as the most parsimonious chain owner.

"The most parsimonious explanation for our results," researcher Elizabeth Klerman of Brigham and Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School said at the time, "is that older people need less sleep."