fritter
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For now, however, many young workers should still be able to find positions so they can afford to fritter away their youth, as is tradition.
From Barron's ● May 29, 2026
Arsenal had led the Premier League by as many as nine points, only to fritter away its advantage and briefly fall out of first in late April.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026
Restaurant-delivery apps have become “an easy, and lazy, way to fritter your money away instead of investing,” Valega said.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026
He called the party a “mess” and wondered how its leaders might fritter away the momentum.
From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025
She stuck her nose in the apple fritter and handed it over to Mona, who was hovering.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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Order a round of fritters, a rum punch and a plate of griot, a citrusy pork dish that is slow-braised and then fried until crisp.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Faced with a chilly house, some users might then dial up the power on their heat pump - but if you do that, much of the efficiency advantage fritters away, he says.
From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026
One of the offerings: takoyaki, sold next to a colorful poster that explains takoyaki is a “beloved Japanese street food … fritters with a variety of delicious toppings.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
Soon, the table was replete with steamer baskets of sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaves, golden-brown barbecue pork dumplings, half a crispy duck and delicate monkfish fritters.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2023
Hugo bought Felicia a paper cone of fritters and a box of chocolates with a bright red bow.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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Dr Kelly told the Sunday Show that change and improvement had been "frittered away" since then, helping to fuel scenes like those seen in the past week.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026
Beagle and Barker said they frittered away two hours at Pershing Square a few blocks away until around 4 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025
Giddy with the view across central Oregon and suddenly reconnected to cell service, I frittered away my smartphone battery during a solo climb on Mount Jefferson in October 2019.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
With shouts of “Go, Coco!” and “Allez, Coco!” emanating from the Court Philippe Chatrier stands, Gauff frittered away two break points as Swiatek served at 1-all.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
Or I could drive out to this Garland place and demand that the grandmother replace the funds Cap frittered away.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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“It’s not that we don’t have the money. It’s that we don’t like frittering it away.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
All he’s doing with this feral pawing for a message is frittering that away.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2024
Ray plainly resents Bankman-Fried for trying to blame the bankruptcy team for frittering away FTX’s value and his claim that he tried to help Ray restructure the company but was rebuffed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
Hilda Burke, psychotherapist and author of The Phone Addiction Workbook, says there's now more widespread awareness about how much time people are "frittering" away on social media platforms.
From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2022
From afar, the many green, black, and blue plastic tents jut into the sky like thousands of anthills with blackhaired people frittering in every direction.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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