spared

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Appeared in the October 11, 2025, print edition as 'President Orders Spared Convicts a Lifetime of Torment'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

Spared thanks to the efforts of his employer, Google, Alvin stumbles upon secret information that reveals suppressed details about the camps.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2025

Spared initially, small towns in rural Kansas were so overwhelmed that hospitals had to fly patients hundreds of miles away for treatment.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 9, 2023

Spared the acrimony and bitterness that has alienated neighbor from neighbor in other states, Vermont may have something else in short supply elsewhere: stamina.

From Salon • Feb. 1, 2022

Spared for the present, he expected to live.

From The Forest Runners A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)