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NFTs have also been criticized for their profligate energy consumption, because they depend on a lot of computer power to encrypt their tokens.
NFTS EXPLAINED: WHAT THEY ARE AND WHY THEY’RE SELLING FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARSLUKE HEEMSBERGENMARCH 5, 2021SINGULARITY HUB 
That provision has already sparked substantial controversy among congressional Republicans, who have for months denounced aid for these governments as “bailouts” for profligate Democratic lawmakers.
WHAT’S IN THE $908 BILLION ECONOMIC RELIEF PROPOSALJEFF STEINDECEMBER 3, 2020WASHINGTON POST
But Pujol senior, though wondering where the devil he had fished all that money from, did not waste it in profligate revelry.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKE
Thus died the gay and profligate Buckingham, in the thirty-seventh year of his age.
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD AND ITS TRIBUTARIESCHARLES G. HARPER
Later, his morals grew corrupt, and he lived a profligate life until he became a convert of the Manicheans at the age of nineteen.
BELL'S CATHEDRALS: THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF CARLISLEC. KING ELEY
But he was such a profligate in his morals, that his name cannot be mentioned with anything like tolerance.
LADY BYRON VINDICATEDHARRIET BEECHER STOWE
He returned in the evenings from the haunts of vice, where he made her understand he had been, with manners so profligate!
LADY BYRON VINDICATEDHARRIET BEECHER STOWE
A profligate issue of rations—five biscuits, four ounces of sugar (instead of two or three), duff and rum again.
IN THE RANKS OF THE C.I.V.ERSKINE CHILDERS
She had a profligate husband, whom she invited to tea every Sunday, supplying him at that time with a sum for his weekly expenses.
THE COLLEGE, THE MARKET, AND THE COURTCAROLINE H. DALL
Who can be persuaded to believe, that he loves so degenerate and profligate a race?
THE DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, VOL. IV (OF 12)VARIOUS
APRIL 18, 2021
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