prodigally

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In the troupe’s farewell this week to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a longtime home for the company, it presents, prodigally, three different programs in four performances only.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2011

Potemkin is now one of the largest landowners in Russia—yet he spends so prodigally that his debts are estimated at 200,000 rubles.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Singer's wife is washing Singer's socks in the kitchen sink and weeping prodigally," a fairly typical episode begins.

From Time Magazine Archive

But using coal and oil made from plants would be like spending income, since plants grow prodigally and all the time.

From Time Magazine Archive

Fever breeds so prodigally in that pestilential squalor that 40,000 people were estimated to have died of it in a single year.

From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by Froude, James Anthony