spare

I’d take a run in the early morning, then hit the buffet, with time to spare to get to our booth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Hammer has not made a film since 2008’s “Ballast,” another spare drama about brittle lives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Morrill also said in a reply to a comment on X that Tesla will maintain spare parts for the model.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

The whole point of learning it is to spare the next group from learning it alone.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

We dug out our spare uniforms and our personal effects, hung our belongings on nails from the wall to keep them off the damp floor.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

From Gucci wallpaper to a $2 million two-level pool with a luxury hot tub and a fully equipped outdoor kitchen, the family’s former property spares no expense.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

Buying has a certain appeal: It spares you from paying rent and allows you to benefit if housing prices increase.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

The adopted plan also spares, at least for now, changes to the Mesa Linda golf course at the city-owned Costa Mesa Country Club.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 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

In case of error they can’t be uploaded like the whole Boston curriculum—there are no spares in case one is lost.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

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

In this cosmos of text, the white squiggles become sparer at the outskirts, like stars at the edge of a galaxy.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022

Though its sparer instrumentation deviates from the futuristic electronic synthesis of “Running Up That Hill,” it shares in the song’s openness and wonder, in its enlightened feeling of breaking through.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2022

Undiagnosed dyslexia drew him to play scripts: sparer texts, meant to be spoken aloud.

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2022

For the miser, though he spared most other things, never was a sparer of good whitewash.

From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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

Here’s Berlin’s great gift — or, one of them: the power to spark life on the page using the sparest of words.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2018

They understood each other, using the sparest words.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

A number of candidates are people whose lives were transformed that day or in the wars that followed, but trauma or bereavement have not spared them from personal attacks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

I had invited them into my apartment expecting an awkward demonstration, but the work was remarkably thorough and spared me from having to do it myself.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

“No expense is going to be spared fighting this case, and it will be fought by some very talented and well-resourced people.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

She added that his age should not have spared him from a youth detention centre.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Odysseus shrank from killing such a man, taught by the gods to sing divinely, and he spared him for further song.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

No other governor ever has come close to sparing that many lives.

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026

By revealing aggressive behavior hidden beneath seemingly reassuring genetic classifications, scientists hope to improve survival for children with the most dangerous tumors while sparing others from treatment they may not need.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 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

The tech giant said it had “never seen a component price increase this much, this quickly” as it lifted prices by as much as 25% on key items, while sparing increases for its signature iPhone.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

Even with all Grandpa had said in the kitchen, I half expected him to thank God for sparing me, but he didn’t.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns