spare
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The broadband market has already been experiencing upheaval as wireless companies — AT&T included — push fixed wireless access, or FWA, a technology that uses spare mobile capacity to provide customers with home internet service.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026
"The plan that we had provided to the school wasn't communicated to the staff members caring for him. There weren't spare adrenaline auto-injectors."
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
She finds solace painting in a spare bedroom she turned into a studio, but knows she will eventually have to move to a smaller place that’s easier to get around in.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
"We need to deploy equipment and qualified, specialist medical staff as quickly as possible," Lieutenant General Johnny Luboya Nkashama told AFP on Friday, "to spare this province from disaster".
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
“The Lord may have created the earth in six days with one to spare, but he didn’t have to help his pa in the fields.”
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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