splurge
Example Sentences
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Arsenal are keen to recruit a midfielder, left-winger and striker, but we should expect a sharper focus on outgoings after last year's £250m splurge.
From BBC • May 19, 2026
If you don’t splurge on an airport lei greeting, pick one up at a local Target.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
And yes, sometimes that means recommending specialty ingredients genuinely worthy of a relative splurge: the good vanilla, candied citrus, Kewpie over the bottom-shelf mayonnaise.
From Salon • May 12, 2026
Unfortunately, their neighbors did not take the advice of the aforementioned adviser and continued to splurge on extravagant vacations and drive around in the latest-model car.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026
When Southside had a payday for his carpentry work, he’d sometimes splurge and buy himself a new album.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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