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It is the same tone struck by Oreth Jones, a farmer sitting in the bed of his truck selling pears, pumpkins, and sweet potatoes – the last of his produce that was spared from the storm.

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Although the orders were a win for people who rely on SNAP, they did not mean that recipients would be spared a lapse in food aid.

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Roberts would be spared from having to turn back to Sasaki, a converted starter who was extremely shaky in Game 6.

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The various embassies' recent actions "reveal a critical and rapid deterioration of security, even around Bamako, which until now had been relatively spared", Bakary Sambe of the Timbuktu Institute, a Dakar-based think tank, told AFP.

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Her house on Avocado Terrace was spared; her daughter’s house was not, nor was a rental property Hyman owned.

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