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[spair] / spɛər /






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CoreWeave is a huge customer of Nvidia, and Nvidia has promised to rent any spare compute it has until 2032.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

He said there is less slack in the economy relative to a year ago, and expects the remaining spare capacity to be absorbed during the next two years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Exposed structure and lighting give the area the spare feeling of a hangar, with upper-level clerestory windows and skylights providing natural light.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Ed Yardeni and Elias Griepentrog wrote in a Sunday note that they see four surprises that could lead to buying opportunities for investors with cash to spare.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026

They passed the side of the house, and the garage, above which Mr. Hardy had been fixing up a spare room.

From "The Missing Mitt (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #2)" by Franklin W. Dixon

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

Being carless also spares us inflation in maintenance and insurance, and we can’t drive to malls and their inflated temptations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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

And so each morning he spares her life in order to hear the end of the story.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

During Hailstork’s piece — structured as a Black American history lesson given by a character named Toil — I felt that some sparer moments were less than ideally balanced in the auditorium.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 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

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

Welkie noted the half-ironical smile, but he answered simply, evenly: "It's not in me; but I'd live even a sparer life than I do, if I thought anybody after me had a chance."

From Sonnie-Boy's People by James B. (James Brendan) Connolly

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

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

While she has to eventually give back some £23,000 in welfare money, she was spared jail.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

There was also Nora in September 1997, which was briefly at tropical storm strength as its center passed along the California-Arizona border, but California was spared the kind of damage it delivered to Baja California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2026

Alireza Sepahi was arrested in the wake of Iran's January protests, was spared public execution in July after suffering a heart attack and married his fiancee on the eve of his death.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

I supposed even dybbukim weren’t spared from remembering.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

What’s unsurprising about Chuck Lorre’s memoir: He dishes, and without sparing anyone, including himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

We weren’t exactly sparing the horses on the drive route.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 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

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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