spare
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Freya Kemp hit the winning run off Bree Illing as got England over the line with 37 balls, to spare to wrap up their seventh successive T20 bilateral series victory against the White Ferns.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
With cemeteries inaccessible during Sudan’s bloody civil war, residents of Khartoum resorted to burying their dead in just about any spare plot of land.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026
Sadly, A.I. did not even spare me from spending several hours thinking through and then writing this story.
From Slate • May 24, 2026
And “Habibti” is a spare collection of R&B-flavored slow jams.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
‘I thought you were starting on the spare room!’
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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