frittering
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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 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
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
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
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