spare
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By taking these steps, you’ll save money on taxes and spare your future self a major financial headache at a difficult time.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Water treatment and power plants struggle with ash contamination, equipment failures, lack of spare parts and overwhelming demand, disrupting essential medical and industrial processes.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
China is the one country outside the Middle East and Russia that has significant spare refining capacity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
England's impressive T20 form continues as they thrash Sri Lanka by six wickets in Cardiff to seal the series with a match to spare.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
I am already a very old man and I don’t have time to spare.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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Airlines are forced to fly older planes for longer and need to keep buying spares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
Incredibolt, trained by Riley Mott, at least spares the Preakness from not having a single graded-stakes winner in a two-turn race.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026
"It spares no-one, dead or alive," said Ajith Sunghay, local head of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
The pope will arrive by helicopter, a diplomatic subtlety that spares him from landing on French soil without actually visiting France.
From Barron's ● Mar. 25, 2026
“If god spares Beth, I’ll try to love and serve Him all my life,” answered Jo, with equal fervor.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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Some, I’ve looked at them, and I saw that I want to put more things on the front too,” he continues, looking specifically at one of the sparer pieces near the front of the gallery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
But something different, sparer and clever is happening with “Enter Ghost,” thanks to Hammad’s adaptation of a Western play.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2023
Christopher Rountree, Long Beach Opera’s music director, conducts an ensemble of nine, but often the instrumental textures are sparer than even those modest forces.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
Both Churchill and Zelenskyy inspired with their rhetoric, though Churchill’s words were more grandiose, while the Ukrainian leader’s message is sparer and more direct.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2022
There, standing just inside the door, tanned like saddle leather, somewhat grayer about the temples and sparer of figure than of old, but with the strong vigour of active months, stood Victor McCalloway.
From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck
The softer light makes even the sparest of holiday décor feel homier.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 6, 2023
He’s known to demand only the sparest detail in his briefings, and his workdays frequently include hours watching cable news and posting on Twitter.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2020
She painted that too, in one of her sparest and most modern pictures: a red hand and forearm lost in a sea of black, interrupted by a shaft of white suggesting an absent god.
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2020
Ideally, they’ll have only the sparest of answers to cling to as they sort out the aftermath themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2017
They understood each other, using the sparest words.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Matheus Cunha's deflected last-minute equaliser spared Manchester United more misery after Lisandro Martinez's own goal had threatened to give Fulham victory at Craven Cottage.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
Johnson was spared by a single vote in the Senate.
From Slate ● Sep. 16, 2026
The war, now well into its fifth year, has not spared Ukraine's wine industry, located in the west like Zakarpattia but also in the east or in the south around Odesa.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
After the Atlas fire destroyed the Signorello family’s winery in 2017 but spared the 40 acres of vines they owned, owner Ray Signorello Jr. pledged to rebuild.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
He’d lost a couple of pounds too, which Lester theoretically could have spared, but the new shape was wrong on him.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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More than 90 percent of excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed by the oceans, sparing land from warming but at severe cost to marine life, reefs and coastal communities.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
Cogan also said Zamabda deserved credit for sparing the government the difficulty and cost of going to trial.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
In justifying the repeal of its former rule, the SEC argued that repeal made negotiating settlements easier and cheaper — thus, sparing the SEC’s scarce resources.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 17, 2026
She says they were pitched as giving single people "access to a virtually infinite pool of strangers" and sparing them "from the possibility of rejection".
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
She did not cry or bid for pity—and he knew she was sparing him these things.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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