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fritter

[frit-er] / ˈfrɪt ər /


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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

Arsenal had led the Premier League by as many as nine points, only to fritter away its advantage and briefly fall out of first in late April.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

Last time I went, we tried the Thai corn fritter which was really good and crispy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 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 went through the small square by the station and he saw the fritter stands piled one on top of the other and he could find no trace of the massacre.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 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

One of the offerings: takoyaki, sold next to a colorful poster that explains takoyaki is a “beloved Japanese street food … fritters with a variety of delicious toppings.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024

Cassava fritters, cassava fries, cassava cakes … cassava's possibilities are nearly endless.

From Salon ● May 6, 2024

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

Beagle and Barker said they frittered away two hours at Pershing Square a few blocks away until around 4 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

A two-under 34 on the front nine failed to do that and when McIlroy frittered away two shots on the 10th, it was clear the championship was beyond his reach.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2025

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

In these scenarios, in which leads are frittered away, think to championships won by competitors who held the advantage for mere moments, not moons.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 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

“It’s not that we don’t have the money. It’s that we don’t like frittering it away.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

All he’s doing with this feral pawing for a message is frittering that away.

From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2024

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

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 is impossible even to get a machine to run without wasting energy, frittering some of its power into the universe as heat.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife


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