profligate

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• Each year, Coburn picked out examples like this study to suggest that the government was profligate with tax dollars.

• NFTs have also been criticized for their profligate energy consumption, because they depend on a lot of computer power to encrypt their tokens.

• That provision has already sparked substantial controversy among congressional Republicans, who have for months denounced aid for these governments as “bailouts” for profligate Democratic lawmakers.

• As understandable from an industry perspective as this practice may have been, profligate use of these vital medications must end.

• Moreover, the settlements rely for their subsistence on profligate funding and services provided by the state of Israel.

• The same day, one of the most reckless and profligate home lenders reported far less impressive results.

• During the cold war he was, in a sense, on the left—he regarded it as a profligate waste of American resources.

• And nothing offends those sensibilities more profoundly than profligate spending and runaway debt.

• But Pujol senior, though wondering where the devil he had fished all that money from, did not waste it in profligate revelry.

• Thus died the gay and profligate Buckingham, in the thirty-seventh year of his age.

• Later, his morals grew corrupt, and he lived a life until he became a convert of the Manicheans at the age of nineteen.