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One of them had worked in the restaurant for more than a decade, and was the second person ever to make Kuchinsky’s conch chowder and fritter batter for customers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 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

Their extensive donut menu has 30 variations, including chocolate wildberry fritter, salt and vinegar, red velvet cake and orange dream star.

From Salon ● May 28, 2025

They had brought over the fritter and drink stands from the Street of the Turks and the people were in good spirits as they bore the tedium of waiting and the scorching sun.

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

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

“Oh, let ’em eat,” said Rosaleen, which floored me, since she’d been known to smack my hand sideways for pinching a single crumb off her fritters before dinner.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

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

England had the benefit of winning the toss in the third Test, then frittered it away.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024

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

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

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

Hilda Burke, psychotherapist and author of The Phone Addiction Workbook, says there's now more widespread awareness about how much time people are "frittering" away on social media platforms.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2022

From afar, the many green, black, and blue plastic tents jut into the sky like thousands of anthills with blackhaired people frittering in every direction.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung