profligate
Example Sentences
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Profligate fundraising and investment has operated on the assumption that money would be cheap, allowing it to make increasingly exotic bets.
From Slate • Mar. 13, 2023
Profligate spending, of course, long has been as much a part of college sports as pep bands and coaches’ polls.
From Washington Post • May 12, 2022
Profligate users were ferreted out from public records and, if they could be identified, shamed.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2021
Profligate spending at the General Services Administration doesn’t hurt Romney’s campaign, either.
From Slate • Apr. 4, 2012
It was that which strangely stirred us, that first night of The Profligate.
From Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Le Gallienne, Richard
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