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interesting. note the following usage and dates. Libs are busy changing words again.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/spanner

Examples of spanner in a Sentence
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The delusion is to believe that moral purity and perfection are possessions, that imperfection is shameful, that violence is a spanner in the works, rather than part of the inner portion of everyone.
—Lawrence Jackson, Harper’s Magazine, 10 July 2023

European politicians now fear a Magyar spanner in the works.
—Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023

McCarthy, for instance, largely used his perch to put a spanner in the works of the legislative process while pushing the ridiculous investigations favored by right-wing media and the party’s most radical members.
—Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023

Few affairs of the quantum world are simple, but the spanner in these quantum works is the fact that the Standard Model’s prediction itself is blurry.
—Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023

To most of the general public, short films are just the spanner that’ll always mess up your Oscars pool.
—Jada Yuan, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024

The 2024 Mercedes-AMG EQE SUV, however, tosses a tiny yet highly conductive virtual spanner into that symbiotic groove.
—Andrew Wendler, Car and Driver, 10 July 2023

There is a strong suspicion that nicotine can throw a spanner in the works throughout this time — a particular concern given the growing popularity of vaping among young people.
—Anthony King, Scientific American, 13 June 2023

Making these fixes takes more than a spanner or some glue.
—Solitaire Townsend, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022