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Perhaps you’re a mattress retailer masquerading as a tech company, or a profligate real estate company masquerading as a tech company.

✦ WARBY PARKER’S SIMPLE VISIONSARAH TODDOCTOBER 7, 2021QUARTZ

Each year, Coburn picked out examples like this study to suggest that the government was profligate with tax dollars.

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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.

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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.

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