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Sabalenka didn’t appear particularly interested in policing what New Yorkers do in their spare time as recreational use is legal in the state.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

From taxi drivers gridlocked in traffic to those pulling pints in Temple Bar, everyone across the capital is frantically seeking spare tickets.

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

The shortage does not spare the renter, either.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 3, 2026

The eccentric executive cast his criticism as friendly, invoking the French proverb "qui aime bien chatie bien" -- spare the rod, spoil the child.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

We dug out our spare uniforms and our personal effects, hung our belongings on nails from the wall to keep them off the damp floor.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

That is the same form of leniency that prosecutors granted to Alibaba and EagleBank, which requires them to admit wrongdoing but spares them from being charged.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 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

She said the court should hand down a “narrow” decision that spares her client.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 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

Christopher Rountree, Long Beach Opera’s music director, conducts an ensemble of nine, but often the instrumental textures are sparer than even those modest forces.

From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 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

In this cosmos of text, the white squiggles become sparer at the outskirts, like stars at the edge of a galaxy.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 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

At Sandusky’s side sat his crony in all important undertakings––a much smaller, sparer man, with aggressive shoulders and restless eyes.

From Nan of Music Mountain by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth

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

This year, marine heatwave forecasts indicate the Great Barrier Reef will be spared the worst of the conditions, giving coral there more time to recover.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 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 ● Sep. 1, 2026

Canadian businesses that were spared earlier U.S. tariffs are figuring out if, and how, to adapt.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Yet Scotland has not been spared the impact of drier weather this summer.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

They spared fertile females and young lambs in order to safeguard the long-term vitality of the local herd.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

The magistrate called the incident "a single act of stupidity or frustration" when sparing him a criminal record.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 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

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

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