spare

This backup unit, known as a flight spare, allowed researchers to recreate difficulties encountered by the spaceborne robot and experiment with possible solutions.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026

Another 1-0 for relentless Arsenal - but did Odegaard spare VAR blushes?

From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026

In a post on X, he said that Tesla will maintain a supply of spare parts for the model.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026

Hammer has not made a film since 2008’s “Ballast,” another spare drama about brittle lives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

I grab a spare log, dash, and see Belle’s lead rein, instead of drooping, twisted around the tree.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

From Gucci wallpaper to a $2 million two-level pool with a luxury hot tub and a fully equipped outdoor kitchen, the family’s former property spares no expense.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

Being carless also spares us inflation in maintenance and insurance, and we can’t drive to malls and their inflated temptations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

She set up the shed to sell any spares.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 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

I had two spares stowed in my hideout.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

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

There, standing just inside the door, tanned like saddle leather, somewhat grayer about the temples and sparer of figure than of old, but with the strong vigour of active months, stood Victor McCalloway.

From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck

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

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

They understood each other, using the sparest words.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Shipp was spared the death penalty because he was not legally an adult when the crime was committed.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

A number of candidates are people whose lives were transformed that day or in the wars that followed, but trauma or bereavement have not spared them from personal attacks.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

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

He spared a moment to check on his mother.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

No other governor ever has come close to sparing that many lives.

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026

By revealing aggressive behavior hidden beneath seemingly reassuring genetic classifications, scientists hope to improve survival for children with the most dangerous tumors while sparing others from treatment they may not need.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who is in Kyrgyzstan for a regional summit, said on Monday that the country is sparing no effort in the search for missing people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 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

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