profligate
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The profligate defending back-to-back champs always seem two steps ahead of the rest of baseball—but their “villainy” remains within the rules .
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
This much silence from pop music’s most dramatic main character, biggest cornball and most profligate breadcrumb dropper has rattled the usual channels for all things Swift.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
The yellow metal rallied sharply last year and extended its gains into early 2026, helped by central-bank buying and worries about profligate spending and currency debasement around the world — but particularly in the U.S.
From MarketWatch ● May 8, 2026
He thinks humanity is engaged in a “plunder” of nature “while our profligate use of land and energy continues to ruin our planet and threaten our existence.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
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
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