wasting time
Example Sentences
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"No one should be wasting time on something AI can do quicker and better," he said at the time.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026
Then he burned almost two minutes with a song-and-dance number about not wasting time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
She’s over wasting time plucking chin hairs, searching for brain fog-induced lost reading glasses and — most of all — withholding her opinions so as not to offend others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2026
Collateral estoppel protects courts from wasting time, litigants from wasting money and the rule of law from death by a thousand cuts.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2025
“If you hadn’t tried to jump, one or all of us might have been crushed by the asphalt that got me. We were wasting time talking. You got us moving.”
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
