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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Koreans, worried about low-flying Yaks, are well trained on camouflage and use it prodigally; here they had done a masterly job.

From Time Magazine Archive

But using coal and oil made from plants would be like spending income, since plants grow prodigally and all the time.

From Time Magazine Archive

I saw her form, by Nature's hand So prodigally finished, She were less perfect if enlarged, Less perfect if diminished; Her toilet I surprised—the worst Of wonders then achieving; None knew the bustle I perceived!

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