profligacy
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Leicester were made to pay for their profligacy when George McGuigan's pick-and-go enabled him to drive over from close range to help pull the deficit back to five points.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Long-dated yields have been climbing amid a toxic mix of fiscal profligacy, a capital spending boom for the ages in artificial intelligence and geopolitical pressures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Sir Jim Ratcliffe has publicly and privately highlighted the eye-watering £375,000-a-week wages paid to the Brazilian as an example of the profligacy that predated his arrival.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2026
But Kolo Muani's profligacy wouldn't come back to haunt Tottenham as they struck in the 51st minute.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2025
Certainly during the Roaring Twenties, a time marked by what F. Scott Fitzgerald called “the greatest, gaudiest spree in history,” the Osage were not alone in their profligacy.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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