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If the sauce needs nothing from me, I can spend that energy making dessert, mixing a cocktail for guests, warming bread — or simply deciding which sparkling water sounds good.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

She and her husband were working harder and harder but weren’t managing to spend time with their kids, let alone get ahead financially.

From Slate ● Sep. 20, 2026

At first, he struggled with relatively simple questions such as “How would you spend your first day of retirement?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

For termites that spend almost their entire lives hidden from view, those biological clues may ultimately make them much harder to hide.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

What would he do, spend eternity searching for a quiet corner amid the chaos?

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

In “Resident Evil,” Abrams’ Bryan spends much of his lonely mission muttering to himself in annoyance and sometimes victory, much like a gamer would.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026

Alice Avelar, an Illinois insurance specialist, said she spends hours each week scouring the internet for recipes that can accommodate a variety of needs in her big, blended family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Higher levels of CO2 can drive magma rapidly upward from deep underground, while water can become more important when magma spends more time at shallower depths.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

When he isn’t being interrogated, he spends several hours a day meditating.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

What I was learning, too, was that in the eyes of a campaign operation, any minutes or hours a candidate spends privately with family are viewed basically as a waste of that valuable time.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

The Top Gear star spent two weeks in a coma after the crash and returned to the show in early 2007.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

But when urine from a different cat was introduced, their interest rose again, and they spent more time sniffing.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026

Zellmer spent more than two decades at Porsche, now also part of the VW Group, culminating in a stint leading the sports-car brand’s North American business through a period of strong growth in the 2010s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

“I spent 25 years as an oil and gas engineer,” he wrote on social media.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

And it was during the months that I spent in the factory that a director of a relief organization came to see me.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Philipson declined to speculate over whether there would be tax rises in the Budget on 28 October, and said the government remained committed to being disciplined about its spending rules.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

The U.S. economy is also growing fast enough, he said, to drive up inflation through the normal demand channels: consumer spending and business investment, especially the boom in artificial intelligence.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

For most of this decade, Subaru’s leadership has limited spending on in-house electrification programs, preferring to rely on partners and suppliers—most conspicuously, Toyota, which owns a 20% interest in Subaru Corporation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

You will be spending limited time with him in person, which means you’ll be filling in a lot of blanks yourself.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

Madi is spending a single weekend in Wisconsin, and Skye talks about missing her?

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller