profligate
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Skepticism about the wisdom of these profligate plans are a problem for indexes that are heavily weighted toward big tech like the S&P 500, which ended the week slightly lower.
From Barron's • Feb. 9, 2026
His son David speculated that his dad’s mixed feelings about his fast-food career stemmed from a mentality common among children of the Depression: “Excess bothered them. It almost seemed profligate and unnecessary,” he explained.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
Yet her subject matter—life in an ordinary English village—contrasts with the Prince’s profligate metropolitan existence, and to most of his countrymen he appeared an “inveterate voluptuary,” of whom Austen, like many of her class, disapproved.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Americans have long been among the world’s most profligate tippers.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2024
The image is searing: a profligate human swarm unable to overcome the anger of Nature.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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