spare
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Every bit helps, but here’s not a lot of spare refining capacity with refineries in Russia and in the Middle East offline.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026
Iran imports industrial machinery, electronics and automotive spare parts from China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Were my parents trying to spare me, as a young child, from learning about human atrocity, or was the Holocaust, and the damage it had done to our family, too difficult for them to confront?
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
UC Berkeley “will spare no effort to provide ample evidence showing that the university complies with all relevant laws, policies and rules governing admissions.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
It was Simon who taught Alexander how to use the sextant and had even sent him his spare one as a gift.
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
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
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
The move spares the concerts-and-ticketing giant from the threat of its business being broken up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 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
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
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
And her life of Penelope Fitzgerald is shorter and sparer than the others — like Fitzgerald, who was elusive and a little mysterious, a great writer of concealment.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2021
The collection and staging were sparer and less eccentric than his usual fare.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 22, 2019
I am a kind old Christian, and no traitor to men’s blood, and no sparer of mine own in a friend’s jeopardy.
From The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
It is not the city’s fanciest, or its sparest.
From New York Times ● May 28, 2022
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
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
Inside each is only the sparest of personal belongings: pots, plates and cups, a bag or two of clothes and a plastic mat to sleep on.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 25, 2017
They understood each other, using the sparest words.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
A critically endangered roloway monkey has given birth only months after a pioneering operation spared her from having her foot amputated.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
Molchanova said the legal process was grueling, including sharing her private medical history, but she said she feels good knowing it may have spared other victims.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
“The boat was tossed around for hours by the storm. I couldn’t see anything, even the ship. In a way I’m glad I was spared the sight of it breaking up, and the debris, and...”
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
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
The magistrate called the incident "a single act of stupidity or frustration" when sparing him a criminal record.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
With your home in Illinois paid off and a cash purchase in Florida, you’re largely sparing your monthly budget, but not completely.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 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
This new information led the prosecutor to drop the charges, sparing Ms. Lee a capital trial and, potentially, the death penalty.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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