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Argue or debate with, as in You'd never know they were happily married, because they're constantly sparring with each other. [Early 1600s]

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Spar has a new book titled The Baby Business: How Money, Science and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception.
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Asked if the ability to reproduce should be a human right, Spar said she would leave that for the philosophers to think about.
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The Caiman offers a range of option packages, from bristling-with-machine-guns, to monster-truck-field-hospital.
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But an island any less menacing would fail to breed a villain who could hope to spar with James Bond.
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He referred to this risky state of affairs as “the babushka-with-uranium-in-the-chicken-shed” problem.
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The little shoe, whose silken laces had become loose in walking, lay in the road covered-with dust.
Honey-Bee|Anatole France
Presently the bowman uttered a thrilling shout, for, through the turmoil of dashing spray, he saw the man clinging to a spar!
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands|R.M. Ballantyne
The canvas was torn from the yards, and spar after spar fell, until nothing but the masts remained.
The Whale and the Grasshopper|Seumas O'Brien
This garrison arrived at the moment when the insurgents, confiding on the Governor's promise, were with-drawing.
The Border Rifles|Gustave Aimard
On the third round the sail was pulled down and the spar housed, but it was too late in the day to pick up the first flight.
Yachting Vol. 2|Various.