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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

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

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

Baseball-sized salt cod fritters arrive golden and hot.

From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026

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

“All the doughnuts and fritters and sticky buns.”

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty

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

Ravichandran Ashwin's sad withdrawal left India without a key man, yet somehow England frittered away their golden opportunity in a blur of sloppy shots and brain fades.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2024

With shouts of “Go, Coco!” and “Allez, Coco!” emanating from the Court Philippe Chatrier stands, Gauff frittered away two break points as Swiatek served at 1-all.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 7, 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

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

Fisher and Day can’t even secure jobs, stuck literally and metaphorically frittering away their youth in the back seat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026

“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

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

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