spare
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In March, the OBR judged that it would reach its goal with 24 billion pounds to spare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The long-term nature of the leverage will also spare traders from the intense volatility decay experienced from holding leveraged ETFs that see big price swings and that reset daily.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026
The culture is collaborative, despite fierce competition - evident at last year's championship, when Erbacher offered Callin spare parts after her car was damaged.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
At least one of Tomlin’s former players is astonished that he was able to construct a sprawling “Minecraft” community in the limited spare time enjoyed by an NFL head coach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The stomach would make a waterskin; the bladder a spare tinder pouch; the Hilts would store nuts.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
The adopted plan also spares, at least for now, changes to the Mesa Linda golf course at the city-owned Costa Mesa Country Club.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
The novel spares none of the details of this formative excursion, winningly capturing the singalongs and relay races, the mountain hikes and mess-hall protocols.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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
So naming a price — one that spares possible enemies — angers them.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
Some, I’ve looked at them, and I saw that I want to put more things on the front too,” he continues, looking specifically at one of the sparer pieces near the front of the gallery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
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
And her life of Penelope Fitzgerald is shorter and sparer than the others — like Fitzgerald, who was elusive and a little mysterious, a great writer of concealment.
From New York Times ● Feb. 13, 2021
The collection and staging were sparer and less eccentric than his usual fare.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 22, 2019
I am a kind old Christian, and no traitor to men’s blood, and no sparer of mine own in a friend’s jeopardy.
From The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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
Ideally, they’ll have only the sparest of answers to cling to as they sort out the aftermath themselves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2017
They understood each other, using the sparest words.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
While she has to eventually give back some £23,000 in welfare money, she was spared jail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Even if private creditors were spared, rating agencies might consider cancellation of central bank holdings a “selective default.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
She added that his age should not have spared him from a youth detention centre.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Alireza Sepahi was arrested in the wake of Iran's January protests, was spared public execution in July after suffering a heart attack and married his fiancee on the eve of his death.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
“Nor, if you were, could I ever bear to part with you, my Harriet. You are a great deal too necessary at Hartfield to be spared to Abbey-Mill.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
More than 90 percent of excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions has been absorbed by the oceans, sparing land from warming but at severe cost to marine life, reefs and coastal communities.
From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
“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
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