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Pawel Pawlikowski directs a spare drama about the Nobel-winning author and his daughter returning to Germany after World War II.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

In February 2025, the company filed for bankruptcy, leaving its customer base — mostly in California — without vehicle warranties, a limited supply of spare parts and additional costs for maintenance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

Technologists envision a future where robots can supplement a declining labor force caused by shifting demographics, and spare humans from dangerous and dirty work.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Translation services, when available, take time most clinicians feel they can’t spare.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

“The spare room is practically a whole separate apartment from the rest of the house. Mom and Dad aren’t going to let either of us live out there.”

From "Trouble at the Arcade (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #1)" by Franklin W. Dixon

In addition to the F-35s themselves, the agreement also covers "initial spares, 10 years of modification kits and sustainment, and international customer orders," Lockheed said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

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

"It spares no-one, dead or alive," said Ajith Sunghay, local head of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

From BBC ● May 10, 2026

Still, Mom spares a glance from the kitchen at me and my project.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

Underwater aesthetics are sadly sparer, accentuating the fluorescent marine fauna.

From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 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

His figure, too, was sparer, but it looked more powerful than ever; and still more apparent was the added look of strength in the familiar and yet subtly altered face.

From A Manifest Destiny by Julia Magruder

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

From Washington Times ● Dec. 6, 2023

It is not the city’s fanciest, or its sparest.

From New York Times ● May 28, 2022

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

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

I had invited them into my apartment expecting an awkward demonstration, but the work was remarkably thorough and spared me from having to do it myself.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

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

In September 1997 there was also Nora, 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 ● Oct. 11, 2026

Klitschko has said that Kyiv -- largely spared from the devastation wrought near the frontlines in nearly five years of conflict -- should now be on a war footing due to the upsurge in attacks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

“Women especially. That must have been the case with your wife. She had courage for every other thing but that. She could not face pain. Well, she was spared that at any rate.”

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

What’s unsurprising about Chuck Lorre’s memoir: He dishes, and without sparing anyone, including himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

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

She says they were pitched as giving single people "access to a virtually infinite pool of strangers" and sparing them "from the possibility of rejection".

From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026

She did not cry or bid for pity—and he knew she was sparing him these things.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White