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Karim Fawaz, executive director at S&P Global Energy, warned in the analysis that “Inventories are low, spare refining capacity is scarce, and seasonal demand is about to strengthen at exactly the wrong moment.”

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

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

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

They might book a custom bike trip through Italy, if they can spare the time off from work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

“I can hire a buggy on my own and spare you the trouble.”

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

“While nothing can undo the loss of Zayde, this resolution spares his loved ones from having to relive these horrific events through a lengthy and painful jury trial.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 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 toxic haze shrouding the Indian capital, Delhi, spares no-one, but its children are counting the biggest cost of the city's worsening and recurrent pollution problem.

From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2025

“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

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

Peter Gelb, the company’s general manager, got burned in 2009 when he replaced Zeffirelli’s grandly realistic production of “Tosca” with a sparer, grimmer staging that was booed at its premiere and, in time, cast aside.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2021

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

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

Matheus Cunha's deflected last-minute equaliser spared Manchester United more misery after Lisandro Martinez's own goal had threatened to give Fulham victory at Craven Cottage.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

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

Unlike so many members of the French elite, starting with the king, Lafayette’s life was spared and he was eventually released.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

There was something so raw about the sound of it that it made me wish, with everything in me, that I could have spared my little sister— and all of us—this pain and fear.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 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

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

She says they were pitched as giving single people "access to a virtually infinite pool of strangers" and sparing them "from the possibility of rejection".

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

“If this begins the ancient prophecy, we don’t have resources to send an army to these Doors of Death and protect the camp. I can’t imagine even sparing seven demigods—” “First things first.”

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan