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England's impressive T20 form continued as they thrashed Sri Lanka by six wickets in Cardiff to seal the series with a match to spare.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 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

Iran imports industrial machinery, electronics and automotive spare parts from China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

So I made a dash for the straight-backed chair beside the small table, but I caught my toe on the spare logs at the fireplace and sent them tumbling.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Incredibolt, trained by Riley Mott, at least spares the Preakness from not having a single graded-stakes winner in a two-turn race.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 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

It spares the host from managing a revolving door of goodbyes, avoids disrupting the natural energy of the event and doesn’t encourage others to leave simply because they see you heading for the door.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

And that also means there's a big market for second hand spares.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2026

Hideo spares me by leaning toward the table.

From "Warcross" by Marie Lu

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

But something different, sparer and clever is happening with “Enter Ghost,” thanks to Hammad’s adaptation of a Western play.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 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

It’s written, like her last novel, the furious and gorgeous climate-crisis allegory “A Children’s Bible,” in sparer, less busy prose.

From New York Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

They are mostly of a light complexion, with an appearance of health and strength, though of a sparer make than the people of the more southern British isles.

From Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America by William Cullen Bryant

The softer light makes even the sparest of holiday décor feel homier.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

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

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

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

A critically endangered roloway monkey has given birth only months after a pioneering operation spared her from having her foot amputated.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 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

Luke was spared having to answer her, because she suddenly sprang to her feet, exclaiming, “Oh, no! The alarm!”

From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

They also serve as executive whisperers, translating the goals and strategies from bosses on high, while also acting as buffers for those higher up the ladder, sparing executives the headaches of petty issues.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

With your home in Illinois paid off and a cash purchase in Florida, you’re largely sparing your monthly budget, but not completely.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 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

Host Greg Davies also said he hoped Celia Imrie wasn't feeling too relaxed, not sparing her blushes as he reminded her of the moment when she accidentally farted during filming, a moment which went viral.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

Touch was the thing, lightness in the finger, the sparing use of water, never spit, the thinness of the rag, and a stingy use of polish.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy