prodigal
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The prodigal will play a part, it seems.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
A woman would ask for wisdom in dealing with a prodigal son.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026
James buried his face in his jersey as he attempted to keep his feelings in check while the Cavaliers played a video tribute to their prodigal hero during a first quarter break.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
In September, she implored our neighbors from the north to make their prodigal return to the Strip.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025
It would be the best moment, before the full flush of summer, and in the valley the azaleas would be prodigal of scent, and the blood-red rhododendrons in bloom.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
When the prodigals visited, the Cobbs kept it secret from Jones.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2018
I was disappointed, naturally, in the ways that home-seeking prodigals are, dismayed to find my otherness in tact among my own.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2013
Mixes phone calls and wolf calls, prodigals and playboys, manages to emerge as the season's best of a bad lot of comedy farces.
From Time Magazine Archive
A providential train wreck brings the prodigals, fortuitously unblemished, back home.
From Time Magazine Archive
These lawless excursions often culminated in garbage-pail raids, debauches from which the young prodigals would sneak home, abashed with nausea.
From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Katharine Lee Bates
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