spare

Tomato already knows butter from ghee-rich curries, grilled cheese dipped in tomato soup and Marcella Hazan’s famously spare sauce.

From Salon ● Aug. 1, 2026

I was expecting a spare space with nothing more than a mirror and ballet barre.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Where a grid has spare capacity and the customer is locked into paying for what it reserved, fixed costs can be spread across more consumption, holding rates down.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

Zemian, who had also been uncuffed, started digging through the SUV, collecting spare tactical vests, then propped them underneath the agent’s head.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

She’d moved into the spare room above the garage not long ago.

From "A Monster of a Mystery (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #5)" by Franklin W. Dixon

Airlines are forced to fly older planes for longer and need to keep buying spares.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 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

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

That, in turn, spares those jurisdictions from going through the more cumbersome process of auctioning off the vehicles, backers of the bill said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2026

Hideo spares me by leaning toward the table.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

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

It’s written, like her last novel, the furious and gorgeous climate-crisis allegory “A Children’s Bible,” in sparer, less busy prose.

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 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

The collection and staging were sparer and less eccentric than his usual fare.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 22, 2019

They are mostly of a light complexion, with an appearance of health and strength, though of a sparer make than the people of the more southern British isles.

From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by Bryant, William Cullen

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

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

About 40,000 of BMW's roughly 85,000 permanent German employees would receive the offers from October, the source said, adding that production line workers would be spared the cuts.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

Chip makers were spared from this week’s carnage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Camels are famously known as the ships of the desert, but even these hardy animals are not being spared from the extremes of rising temperatures in Africa.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Perez’s only request to the court was that Zambada be spared the fate of El Chapo, who is serving out his life sentence under strict isolation at a federal supermax prison in Colorado.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

I supposed even dybbukim weren’t spared from remembering.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

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

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has a pleasant surprise for dozens of New York City landlords: He is sparing them from his proposed rent freeze this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026

In exchange for their sparing his life, the demon king Mayasura agreed to build the Pandava brothers the most beautiful palace the world had ever seen.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi