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
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
In September, she implored our neighbors from the north to make their prodigal return to the Strip.
From Slate ● Nov. 18, 2025
It would be the best moment, before the full flush of summer, and in the valley the azaleas would be prodigal of scent, and the blood-red rhododendrons in bloom.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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
A providential train wreck brings the prodigals, fortuitously unblemished, back home.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whatever it was, his own people noticed it also, and even the last returned prodigals never ventured to cross him.
From White Fire by John Oxenham
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