wasted
Example Sentences
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They added the court case has "wasted so much valuable court time and more than £50m in legal costs".
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
The letter ensures that "time isn't wasted in a place where there is no expectation of recovering people alive," he told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Tens of billions of dollars were wasted on Neom, where the kingdom began work on a planned futuristic city of nine million people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
“We’ve just wasted so much time,” he said, that meeting goals to limit global warming has become “functionally impossible.”
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
“Your father should’ve known better. A wasted sacrifice is no sacrifice at all.”
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
