spared

past tense of spare

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Verb
  • Some sets were constructed in Toronto, disassembled and shipped out and have now been preserved for a potential second season.
    Amber Dowling, IndieWire, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Yet Flores would like to see our historic places — which are in fact the city’s Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing (NOAH) — not preserved.
    Bruce D Coons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
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“Spared.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spared. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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