prodigally

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In the troupe’s farewell this week to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a longtime home for the company, it presents, prodigally, three different programs in four performances only.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2011

In the panic of 1893 financial ruin struck the Willkies and a few years later Elwood's natural gas, prodigally wasted, played out.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nowadays they disperse it prodigally through huge center-pivot irrigation sprinklers, which moisten circular swaths a quarter-mile in diameter.

From Time Magazine Archive

They constitute an unprecedented labor army, which can be, and has been, rushed to every threatened sector, there to construct cement fortlets, dig bunkers, repair breaches and sow mines as prodigally as wheat.

From Time Magazine Archive

She is a lady bountiful, who gives As prodigally as nature, and she asks No gifts from you, but gets them anyway, Because all spirits pour themselves to her.

From Domesday Book by Masters, Edgar Lee