waste

One time, both mother and daughter ordered the most expensive dessert at about $16 each only to eat half of one and left the other — that kind of waste.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 17, 2026

Batty, who is now 20, said his job at a waste management company had given his young family financial security.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

I found substantial waste at Interior, and our team worked to eliminate much of it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

“It seemed like a big waste of government money, but I do feel bad for the people who stood in line for nothing,” wrote one Reddit user on the gift cards running out.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026

This was all such a waste of time, and after that last fight with what was apparently supposed to be a troll, his arm really hurt.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

It just wastes the strategy — and your money.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026

In 1958, working-class voters and Democrats were within 5 points of each other on whether government wastes a lot of tax money.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

His 13 league goals for Brighton last season came from 12.5 expected goals, a steady return that reflects a striker who finishes at expectation and rarely wastes chances.

From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026

It does point out that “very little is known about the history of this deep-ocean disposal, the nature of the wastes, or waste sources.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

The smell engulfed her next—the odor of sweat and fear, of body wastes and hopelessness.

From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper

While Genghis may have been the most skilled chief among his Mongol contemporaries, his skills would have been wasted if he had been born 20 years earlier, or 200 miles to the south.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

In the age of busyness, it’s easy to worry that even a moment wasted could transform into a pile of stress, and money lost.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

If you’re working hard at the wrong things, “that's wasted effort.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Gay swished his bat in the direction of the stumps in frustration and wasted a review, his immediate future in the team vulnerable.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

When the door slid shut behind him, my mom wasted no time in unhooking my simulation probes so she could give me a tight hug.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin

Without collecting race and ethnicity data in the census, these estimates could not be produced, needlessly wasting resources and endangering lives.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

“And in a certain respect, Ballmer can pay this and move on. So it may well be for him … it’s not worth it to keep fighting, keep wasting money on that.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

“The more time I’m spending wasting their time, they’re probably not out there trying to look for other people,” he said.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

While he blogged about students wasting time watching Netflix, he found something else to binge that would end up being far more important to his career: effective altruism.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

He argued that it would be far more efficient if workers were a few steps from the factory instead of wasting precious time marching the two and a half miles between Emalia and the camp.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson