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splurge

[splurj] / splɜrdʒ /


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If you want to splurge, there’s a meet-and-greet with Gibson plus VIP Platinum admission for $739.38, including tax and fees.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

So to avoid a splurge of festival fashion/dad on school run at the first sign of summer, this is the criteria: no more than one shirt per World Cup, and one per country.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 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

Even with the cold, by January we were all so rank that Mom decided it was time to splurge: We would go to the Laundromat.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls




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