fritter

The result is something between an aromatic fritter and a funky soufflé.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

For now, however, many young workers should still be able to find positions so they can afford to fritter away their youth, as is tradition.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

Restaurant-delivery apps have become “an easy, and lazy, way to fritter your money away instead of investing,” Valega said.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026

He called the party a “mess” and wondered how its leaders might fritter away the momentum.

From Salon ● Nov. 6, 2025

They’d find crumbs of apple fritter in our drawer.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

Go for the carimañolas, crisp yuca fritters stuffed with meat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Our tablemates had purchased a litany of fried options, including scotch eggs from the Quail Inn, which also serves bacon-wrapped jalapeño peppers, cheese fritters and “whole, partially deboned quail.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

Faced with a chilly house, some users might then dial up the power on their heat pump - but if you do that, much of the efficiency advantage fritters away, he says.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

These include cinnamon sticks, filled and flavored donuts, French crullers and fritters.

From Salon ● Feb. 12, 2025

The guard was passing by, so I remarked instead about the plantain fritters we’d eaten the night before.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

Dr Kelly told the Sunday Show that change and improvement had been "frittered away" since then, helping to fuel scenes like those seen in the past week.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

That’s just where they want to be heading into the NFC championship game at Seattle, where last month they frittered away a 16-point lead in the fourth quarter and wound up losing in overtime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2026

Giddy with the view across central Oregon and suddenly reconnected to cell service, I frittered away my smartphone battery during a solo climb on Mount Jefferson in October 2019.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

Soon after, at 5-2, Alcaraz held two match points that he frittered away; he got broken for the first time to make it 5-3; and another match point came and went at 5-4.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 6, 2023

Or I could drive out to this Garland place and demand that the grandmother replace the funds Cap frittered away.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

The meek Eagles sputtered and stalled, brainlessly frittering a time out that might have extended the game.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 12, 2026

Ray plainly resents Bankman-Fried for trying to blame the bankruptcy team for frittering away FTX’s value and his claim that he tried to help Ray restructure the company but was rebuffed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024

This is only frittering if it becomes excessive.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2023

It’s hard to imagine the money you are frittering away giving you the kind of entertainment you could have with $125,000 after three decades.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022

It was like all the good and true things he’d ever done didn’t matter, and he, who he was, the legacy he’d worked so hard for, was dissolving, frittering away with every lie they told.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee