Needed and Spared

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Needed adjective - Impossible to do without.

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Spared is an antonym for needed.

Nearby Words: need, needs, needy, needful, needing

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Needed is an antonym for spared.

Nearby Words: spare, sparing

You Will Be Spared: Despite conspiring to sabotage Colossus, Forbin's life is spared because he's needed to build the next stage of Master Computer.

Source: Film / Colossus: The Forbin Project
Would Hit a Girl: Played straight by multiple characters; Two-Face has no problem with decking Sarah Essen-Gordon, and Bane tells his Hispanic "sidekick" that he only spared her because he needed someone to spread the word of his doings, and she posed the least threat.

Source: Comic Book / Batman: No Man's Land
The reason General Grievous spared Shaak Ti when he obviously could have killed her was because he needed a live witness to let the Jedi Council know that Chancellor Palpatine was gone (as his boss Darth Sidious, who unknown to Grievous, was Palpatine, had wanted them to know).

Source: Pragmatic Villainy aka: Pragmatic Villain

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