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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

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

I clear my schedule and hole up in the library, only to fritter away hours doing everything but writing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

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

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

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

Highlights of the evening include bay water sweet oysters, tuna crudo, crab bisque fritters and pan-seared Alaskan halibut. 5-9 p.m.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 19, 2023

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

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

If this adds a hint of mitigation for England's failure to secure a second successive 3-0 clean sweep, there are few excuses for the way the hosts frittered away this Test.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2024

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

I’d frittered away the better part of a week and now that dream of a mountain had just crumbled to dust.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

“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

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 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