squander

"This is how you squander the future and trust."

From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026

Tottenham Hotspur squander the opportunity to take a significant step towards Premier League safety as they are held to a 1-1 draw at home by Leeds United.

From BBC ● May 11, 2026

After losing in straight sets to Rishvanth Krishna from Irvine University in last year’s final, Huarte was not about to squander his second chance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026

But the administration also needs to take care to do it right and not squander political capital by acting outside the public perception of common sense even if it is acting lawfully.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 13, 2026

She’s jealous that Peter confides in me and not in her, offended that Dussel doesn’t respond sufficiently to her flirtations and afraid her husband’s going to squander all the fur-coat money on tobacco.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

The film almost entirely squanders whatever appeal it may have churned up, except it all happens so fast.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2025

Carrie-Anne Moss of “The Matrix” makes for an ideal veteran Jedi, but in its first misstep, “The Acolyte” squanders that opportunity right out of the gate, setting viewers up for disappointment.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

Trym knows too well how the human touch squanders a wild animal’s dignity.

From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2022

Food waste not only squanders natural resources, money and effort, it degrades the environment.

From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2022

So he squanders money along the king’s highway, the triple idiot! gorging every man he meets with gold for the pleasure of arriving—where?

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

For a company that has owned a pioneering AI lab since 2014 and has proclaimed itself “AI-first” since 2016, Google seems to have squandered an early lead, experts say.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

Fritz squandered a pair of match points at 40-15 and gave himself another with a booming forehand.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026

Andy Pages squandered a potential scoring opportunity when he was caught stealing in the sixth.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

Six match points were squandered in a quarter-final defeat by Hailey Baptiste in Madrid in April, before she let a set and a break lead slip against Romanian veteran Sorana Cirstea in Rome.

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 2026

Money, time, and energy squandered on the detailed analysis of the trivial.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

For now, he keeps squandering his Marvel breaks on whiffs like “Cherry” and “Uncharted.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

I can definitely understand why there might not be, let’s say, a surplus of empathy for a privileged young man carelessly and repeatedly squandering his expensive education.

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

Oversight of payments to your brother not only prevents him from squandering the money, but it helps family wealth outlast a single generation, the law firm adds.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 16, 2026

They had a knack for disastrous drafting and squandering their top picks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

In the midst of the excitement of the family the scandalization of Úrsula, the joy of the people cramming the street to watch that apotheosis of squandering.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez