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fritter

[frit-er] / ˈfrɪt ər /


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The steam emanating from a fried zucchini fritter was…unnatural.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 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

And I stuck in a morsel of apple fritter wrapped in waxed paper.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

Order a round of fritters, a rum punch and a plate of griot, a citrusy pork dish that is slow-braised and then fried until crisp.

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

There’s also a Spanish omelet with potatoes and “Croquet de Pollo,” which he described as creamy chicken fritters with potatoes.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 19, 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

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

Some lines may be familiar: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”; “Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify!”

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 30, 2026

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

Maybe you’ve frittered away hours on Microsoft Flight Simulator.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 22, 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 that we don’t like frittering it away.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 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

But if it hit the wall, it would at least tie the game and allow the Mariners another chance at the expected victory they were in the process of frittering away.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 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


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