Sparks
noun
Jared 1789–1866, U.S. historian and editor.
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Sparks
American
[spahrks]
/ spɑrks /
noun
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Jared 1789–1866, U.S. historian and editor.
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a city in W Nevada, E of Reno.
sparks
British
/ spɑːks /
noun
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an electrician
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a radio officer, esp on a ship
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After all, Spars saw the sculptures everywhere she went — in the Santa Rosa Plaza, at Montgomery Village, outside downtown’s Empire Cleaners.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
As a child, Clara Spars, who grew up in Charles M. Schulz’s adoptive hometown of Santa Rosa, assumed that every city had life-size “Peanuts” statues dotting its streets.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
By the next year, the Spars were disbanded.
From BBC • Nov. 24, 2018
Spars are used to staple the thatch into place.
From The Guardian • May 14, 2010
Spars of alerse, eighty or ninety feet in length, may be procured; and from eight hundred to a thousand boards are frequently obtained from a single tree.
From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert
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