sparing

In the days that followed, the Trump administration announced that it would be temporarily sparing carmakers from the import levies.

I want people who don’t come to comedy for emotion to be moved, but to do that I have to be very sparing in those moments and sneak the emotions in underneath.

He thanked the killers for pleading guilty to murder and sparing the family the ordeal of having to go through a trial.

This may sound ungenerous to these voters, but only if you've been sparing yourself the torture of engaging their actual opinions.

This is not uncommon in fundamentalist Christian households, where the biblical proverb about "sparing the rod" is regularly wielded to justify corporal punishment.