profligate

Example Sentences

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He has long believed that large-scale asset purchases should only be used during crisis and in moderation due to the risk that they can be used to fund a profligate Treasury.

From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026

In Japan, a weaker yen appears to be a symptom of a broader economic and financial rebalancing underway as interest rates normalize, inflation picks up, economic green shoots appear, and Tokyo’s fiscal policies remain profligate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

More broadly, what investors must keep in mind is that Japan’s high debt-to-GDP ratio is largely the result of decades of stagnant growth and deflation, not profligate spending.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

The seamers ran in down the slope from the Pavilion End, spinner Prabath Jayasuriya plugged away from the Nursery End and England were profligate.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2024

Although he possessed extraordinary reserves of energy, he’d been profligate with those reserves, and by the time he got to Camp Four they were nearly depleted.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer