prodigal
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The prodigal will play a part, it seems.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
David Kepner’s Biff, the prodigal son who rediscovers the reasons he ran off in the first place, delivers the most centered performance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 2026
It is to Mr. Hale’s great credit that he refuses to anathematize the prodigal children in his book.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
James buried his face in his jersey as he attempted to keep his feelings in check while the Cavaliers played a video tribute to their prodigal hero during a first quarter break.
From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026
There was the prodigal scene at the door.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
When the prodigals visited, the Cobbs kept it secret from Jones.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 19, 2018
I was disappointed, naturally, in the ways that home-seeking prodigals are, dismayed to find my otherness in tact among my own.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 22, 2013
Yet unlike those prodigals who waste themselves and their substance alike, he was not regarded as either a spendthrift or a debauchee, but rather as a refined voluptuary.''
From Time Magazine Archive
Mixes phone calls and wolf calls, prodigals and playboys, manages to emerge as the season's best of a bad lot of comedy farces.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes, I've brought back the infant prodigals, and a nice job I've had to persuade them to come quiet.
From Poor Relations by Compton MacKenzie
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